Cover art by @Tuji
[In an age when history books call us a mistake, we became each other's history books]
Content warnings: European-style romance, no transmigration, slow-paced, ordinary people, happy ending
Both leads are Westerners, one-on-one, both inexperienced, serious drama, historically grounded
No grand narrative, plenty of everyday details, a normal romance
INTJ British neurosurgeon x refined, family-minded German military officer
The male lead is based on Werner from The Sea Is Watching
The circumstances of how the leads meet are inspired by The Sea Is Watching and Suite Francaise.
“He came into my life with October 1941.
He occupied my home, and I occupied his heart.
In this age, we occupied each other's lives, each becoming the other's shore.”
She is a brain surgeon stranded in Saint-Malo, working at a military-controlled hospital.
She scrapes by, spending her days working on German skulls and lumbar vertebrae,
until a requisition order suddenly deposits him in her home.
From then on, there is a grandfather clock in the house that automatically says hello,
and a chatterbox who heaps praise on her diagram of the brain's ventricles
and is always eyeing her piano covetously.
“A talkative but fairly polite oddball.”
That is how she describes him.
And the food this chatterbox makes... seems to suit her tastes rather well.
(Not that she's saying British food is bad!)
She thought he was a reef that had appeared out of nowhere.
He thought she was a ship making a temporary stop.
In an age without end,
they became each other's shore.
“Werner, will we live to see the end of the war together?”
“We will, Dr. Kirkland,” he said. “Remember? The waves always return to shore.”
A German woman's wartime memoir
A soldier branded a traitor, adrift with the times
After the light, tender meeting and close embrace of sea and shore,
in the sunset after the storm has passed,
two people, one home, one age, stumbling forward together
[All medical procedures in this story are based on medical records, domestic and international research papers, and medical case reports. The story is set during World War II, so this is not a reference for modern clinical practice. The procedures are included solely for the plot.]
[Some street names, building names, facility names, and place names are fictional and used solely for the plot.]
Theme: Anti-war, World War II, war and love
I saw the reunion perfectly... Will you leave here next? After all, France should not welcome Germans
Very gentle and delicate brush strokes and writing style. I have been reading Er Tongwen for eight or nine years, and I personally think that the writing style and plot of this book are above average. Since the plots of this kind of novels are very easy to be the same, if they want to get out of the circle quickly, the author can only write in the direction of bloody literature covered in WW2, because the evil characters and bloody plots are more eye-catching, the theme is love, and the historical background is more like a pure backdrop. Readers who are slow to read long articles usually do not have the patience to spend time reading, because they cannot be stimulated quickly, but this is human nature, understandable, and understandable. But the starting point for writing this article must be because the author has a different feeling about this period of history. It is a story written for himself. Every bard has a distant place, and he will reach the end regardless of whether there are companions or not. Come on 💪 Please insist on finishing 🥺
Woohoo, the male and female protagonists look like two bitter melons dipped in sugar were carried into a flower pot to take root and sprout.
As a soldier, desertion would be largely contrary to his duty. But he just wants to live, so what's wrong with that.
😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 Weiwei went home Weiwe went home Weiwe came home 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
Friday, May 8, 2026 The author's wife's writing is so good (I'm from station B). My wife's language is so poetic, delicate and beautiful, describing all kinds of complex emotions very vividly, as if I have become Werner, and I have become Ethel, crying with them, laughing with them, being sweet and happy together, sad together, being judged and torn apart by morality... (Off topic) Does the author's wife know German and French? I feel like there are a lot of words in it that people who don't understand German and French can't write 🐶 Mrs. Pls's writing is really careful and standard. She lists all the quotations and uses at the end of the chapter (like writing a paper hhhhh [the author's wife even quoted the paper 🐶]). Is the author's wife majoring in Western language, history and culture? 🤩 (Off-topic) I have also read some of the works that the author's wife quoted and used in the article. I have read some of the works in the essays and poems, such as to the lighthouse 😳 btw I just finished reading the third chapter and thought it was over. I was so scared that I quickly looked up the book information... Finally, I wish that the author's wife can write a few extra chapters after finishing the main text. I really love this story, I love Silence Like the Sea, I love Ethel, I love Werner, and I also love the author's wife. There are really very few derivative works of Shen Jing Ru Hai. (Actually, I had already looked for fanfics on Xiaolujiang before I saw Mrs. B's tweet. Unfortunately, the search for Shen Jing Ru Hai didn't find this book. Can she change the search tag? I really hope that all the wives with such good writing and stories will promote their works and don't let their pearls become dust.) You are the first to write a medium-length novel with such good writing skills. 😭 I'm really, really grateful that I clicked on the B-site video where the author's wife tweeted (God knows I've read through all the secondary creations in Lao Ford's silent column, and I'm begging for food on various platforms every day 😭). I'm very grateful to have met the author's wife and my wife's article. Please update my wife as soon as possible ❤️ [orange heart] 💛 [green heart] [green heart] [blue heart] 💜 (Oh my God, the Hongmeng system... I can't rate my wife's book and write a book review. I can only write it in the chapter review first 😭 I will definitely write a fat book review when the system is updated and my wife updates [I wrote so many omg... It turns out that the talkative Werner is actually me [covering my face and crying]])
Even if there is no reply, he will come back
I woke up from the dream, came to life, and were reunited [Orange Heart]
The weight of history, when I realized that this is a fanfic of Shen Ruhai, I knew that the writing power must be extraordinary 🥺 It tied up all of a sudden and it made my heart feel like a knife. I really hope to see an ending that makes me burst into tears.
This chapter is truly the most painful and painful one I have ever read. It is a piercing pain, and I feel like my skin is bleeding and burning. It is also a chapter where I really feel that Werner and the God of Death are face to face. He is no longer the closest to death. In a sense, he is death itself. I can't imagine how uncomfortable it must be for Ethel and Werner. In 1943, they were dead, but they were still alive. I used him as a human crutch for Werner to carry him home, and would shyly call Ethel "Mrs." I liked Werner as a person and liked to hear him talk about his experiences from his perspective. He was naturally cute and thought that the tourist route was like a gingerbread man. He quietly and tenderly gave Cosette a cross... Angels should go back to heaven and come back when all this is over. 1943 Brought despair and overwhelming hatred, but I didn't know who to hate. If I think about the question of how cruel war is in the future, August may be the painful but unworthy tip of the iceberg in the answer.