
The Alley Was Longer Than I Thought
小巷原来那么长
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 541k Words
- Genre
- Baihe (GL)
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 1y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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I've finished reading it. It's a novel like a prose poem, hiding the hesitant thoughts of Xiaoxiang and Tao Tianran. One is mute and unable to speak. He can only think about her silently and secretly, but cannot express his love. One is a blind man, talking about his love, holding up a bright moon and loving it high. When the evening breeze comes and spring comes, all the good things are placed on her, but he does not see that the bright moon is also an ordinary person who loves you. Although he has a heart but no words, The two people stumbled towards each other ignorantly, thinking that it was a one-man show, and they were both affectionate lovers in their own stories. In the blink of an eye, love was like a pebble in this life that lost balance after being together, grinding away at their hearts, and they gradually wanted to give up. Perhaps after loss, a silent mute will gradually know how to say love, how to read it to someone, how to let someone know that loving you is a simple thing, and it is something that Tao Tianran loves alleys for granted. Xiaoxiang will also know that Tao Tianran is not his imagination, nor the moonlight, nor all beautiful things, and a person he can meet casually, learn to open his eyes and take a serious look at the hidden heart, he will be sad, sad and happy, and he is not an iceberg. It is a seed buried deep under the ice. It was buried in the winter and wandered from place to place, home and port city. It was bathed in the sunshine and experienced wind and rain. Every time it could stretch its branches and wanted to break out of the ground, it was always just a little bit closer. Until that summer, the squeaking summer, the hottest time, this seed met an alley, a long, a little crooked, a little bad alley, but it was also quietly shaded in the sun. The ice on the little seed gradually disappeared and melted because of the sense of security, and the happy and sunny alley brought this summer. Enough power to break the ground and grow, slowly crackling the ice layer, leaving only a thin layer bit by bit. Finally, when the alley told her love again and again, when the alley said she was leaving, it couldn't wait to grow out, and began to perceive the world tremblingly. The tender green branches swayed and worked hard to bloom a small flower. Dedicated to the alley, telling love around the alley, A seed finally sprouts and grows up. It finds a place where it can rest safely and germinate. The leisurely alley, the lively bustle, the warm sunshine, and a bright little flower blooming under the alley The spring breeze comes, summer is green, autumn is strong, and winter is long The four seasons change, warm, restless, autumn yellow, first snow long alley a small flower tiny things Tell you secretly I want no one to know and I want you to be blessed by the world old news stationery Thin and long words Talking about how you and I met Talking about your and my happiness Maybe a little bit sad Talking about the future between you and me There are still hundreds of years where you are here and I am too Picking up the old times also brings back memories When I think about my future life, I will be a little lucky best wishes Everything is fine. I hope Xiaoxiang and Tao Tianran can go a little further and see the sixty-four seas without leaving so many regrets. There are no gods, only those who love you are. Only fools can say that love will last forever. That's why you two are not so smart. It took you so far to really come together and go around so many times. Only fools can say love. Time is so long. I hope you can look forward to it in the future.
We only have one life on earth. I've been for you thousands of times in my dreams. The first half is indeed well written. Seeing the world from the perspective of an alley is irreversible. It is extremely regretful. My parents have white hair and give birth to a black hair person. The person I love has never said that they like me. I can no longer appear in front of my good friends and family as Cheng Xiang. Even if she has a better appearance and a good family, she is no longer the lively alley. She and yys have two souls and one body, and they have two broken loves respectively. It is almost inevitable that they cannot have both ends. Therefore, I am looking forward to how the author fills the gap. However, there are too many subsequent elements such as wormhole travel, rebirth cycle, and dream perception, and the transition is abrupt. There is no obvious foreshadowing for the setting that TTR is the looper. Two + n weeks of ttr chasing his wife, the story is dull but without success, and suddenly I am given a knife to start over again. If I were ttr, I would definitely be crazy, and I would blow up the world with my backhand. So I think the mentality of the characters here can be further explored. The characters in ttr are not as realistic as Cheng Xiang. I personally think the plot setting is a flaw. There is actually no need to start the third + n week, because readers have a threshold for accepting the surprise and expectation of the reversal. This week only has two or three chapters and can be explained clearly in the previous week. Furthermore, this is not a reversal, it is actually the author's plot killing, purely to manipulate the reader's mentality and torture the reader. However, I thought about it again, and I still support writing this way, because I want that Xiaoxiang who has liked ttr for a long time to give up this relationship that if he leaves this person, his life will be blank. I hope that all girls can put themselves first and not feel inferior. They are too humble like the alleys, and their lives are too painful and sad. Forgetting is not something everyone can do easily. If you can't forget, just let it go. There are still many choices ahead. The future is unpredictable and everything is possible. Finally, a word about the writing style. Exquisite writing is certainly a language style, but I feel that if you write with the intention of coming up with golden sentences without paying attention to the natural simplicity of the language and the sense of grounding in the characters, it will not be very readable.
After reading it, I opened it for the second time. After reading it this time, it is still wonderful!
When I start reading the next book, I feel stuck reading this one.
Can a person who didn't communicate with his girlfriend when he was alive love her so much that he can look for her over and over again on various timelines after his girlfriend passed away? Then why didn't he win her back for four years? The turn was sudden.
I feel so bad after watching this. I really want to see the follow-up story of this week.
I couldn't bear to read it, but I finally finished it today
Read it patiently and experience the emotion to the extent that the hair on your body will stand on end.
It is a very touching work. It tells us to cherish the people around us. It also expresses the sadness of secret love. There are many golden sentences. I may copy some later and use them as melancholic copywriting hahahaha
This article is suitable for listening to Su Sirong's "Beyond the Peony Pavilion", especially the chapter where Tao Tianran introduces himself to Cheng Xiang after she loses her memory.