[This novel has been signed for print publication. Author: Yegu yee]
Beautiful, bold older woman x impoverished top student
Healing | School life | Unrequited love from the male lead
"That boy who always used to sneak glances at me in high school."
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The local news station says
that every winter, a kind of bird called the black kite flies in great numbers along the Yangtze River to Nanjing.
If people really do get another life,
Li Chenzhou wants to be a black kite.
That way, every winter, he can fly past Meng Xin once more.
/ I know the past is like a ship that's sailed and can't be chased. I hope you still have a spring that stretches for thousands of miles.
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Theme: The great river flows east.
Let me add something about the protagonist Li Chenzhou of this story. I think he achieved three realms when he crossed the Yangtze River. First, he was obsessed with crossing. He felt that Meng Xin was on the other side of the Yangtze River. He wanted to live because of her and wanted to go to Beijing because of her. This "persistence" gave him direction and gave him a reason to "must live." His "crossing" has undergone an essential change. His goal is no longer to physically "cross" the Yangtze River, but to let others "cross" the dangers of life. At this moment, he has moved from "crossing himself" to "crossing others." He kindly gives this power born of love to the children who need him more. So he "feels at ease". He no longer needs to reach a specific other side to obtain happiness. In giving and protecting, he completely finds the state of perfect life. In the end, it is indifferent crossing. When he gave his life to save the students, He completed the final transformation and reunited with his mother. He no longer needed to "cross" the Yangtze River because he had "become" the Yangtze River. It no longer matters whether he crossed it or not. The word boat can mean "a shipwreck with thousands of sails passing by." From then on, he was whispering when the spring breeze blew, his courage was the rushing river, and his echo was heard in the sound of children reading. It was everywhere in the world. Li Chenzhou sank, and because of this he gained the whole world.
"Crossing the Yangtze River Again" In this story, everyone is actually crossing the Yangtze River. Qiu Zhen is a woman who grew up in the village. She ran away from the village penniless and still had to work. She even spent a lot of money to attend a girls' night school. The first thing she did when she ran out of the village was to collapse on the top of the mountain and take a look at the water of the Yangtze River. For other women in the village, this river is the end of the world, but for her, the Yangtze River is the beginning of the world. The one on the other side of the river has already "died" - she has resigned herself to her fate. The one on the other side of the river is being reborn - she is wild and full of possibilities. How kind is Ms. Qiu? Even if she is very tired, she will wait until Shen Zhou comes home and buy a lot of delicious food for Shen Zhou. She has never restrained or pressured Shen Zhou. She has given Shen Zhou the best. She is willing to spend money to treat Shen Zhou when he is sick. Of course, the best thing is that the last person to take Shen Zhou home is Ms. Qiu. She understands Shen Zhou's ambitions and understands Shen Zhou's roots. Shen Zhou said that it is very happy to be Ms. Qiu's son. For Ms. Qiu, becoming Shen Zhou's mother is also a blessing. Lu Yiqing was not trusted by her biological parents, was bullied by her classmates and teachers, lost her only friend in her school days, failed in the high school entrance examination, and failed in the college entrance examination, but never gave up on herself. Finally, she escaped from everything in that city. For her, the other side of the river is the tomb of the "old self" she buried with her own hands. What she passed through was not a place, but the identity of the "untrusted daughter", "bullied classmate" and "failed student". She combined all these identities. They all stayed in Jiangbei and let the river wash away, but this side of the river is the world where she can breathe freely. Teacher Lu always cares about every student, remembers the family situation of all students, and cherishes good seedlings, so he gave Shen Zhou a lot of help. Even if he was caught in the rain, he held up a protective umbrella for Shen Zhou. He told Shen Zhou again and again not to give up on himself. She was gentle and strong. In the end, it was because of Teacher Lu that Shen Zhou went to teach in the mountainous area. Just like Teacher Lu, he did not give up on him, nor did he give up on any of his students. This is the inheritance of teaching. Use one life to awaken another life, and deliver this awakening ability to the hands of the awakened person like the most precious inheritance. Meng Xin has good family conditions, but her father is cheating, and her mother's love is very heavy, so heavy that she will try her best to live like her mother likes, so she forces herself to grow up and become stronger. She uses rebellion to cover everything up, and finally tears up her gauze skirt and runs out. For her, on the other side of the river, she is playing the "perfect daughter" here, and the "freedom to be herself" that she does not dare to hope for. There is the love that she dare not express, her real fragility and desire. On Jiang's side, she has created a wilderness with her own hands, letting herself be reborn. Meng Xin is a great and sincere girl. She also sees the power of manifestation in her. She will strive for whatever she wants and try her best. She will still choose the person she wants to be after experiencing many things. She is still fighting against the cards of fate. It is also because of her vitality that she gives Shen Zhou hope to live again and again. Meng Xin is so popular that everyone knows it. So popular that no one dares to slander him. So popular that there are fans everywhere in the streets. So popular that he is recognized by the world. Li Chenzhou was born in the Yangtze River. He was originally a high-spirited boy who was bullied by his classmates and turned into a monster. He always had various physical problems and needed to be treated with medication, but accidents still happened. He often wanted to end his life and even committed suicide in his dreams. He had favorite music but could not realize his music dream. The other side of the river was the quagmire he struggled in. This side of the river was the other side of the river that he could never reach. He was not on the riverside. He has been drowning in the middle of the river. The Yangtze River is not a scene in his story, but an accomplice of his fate. It is not only his birth certificate, but also the biggest altar full of temptation in his slow digestion ceremony. Shen Zhou's background must be kind. He will give her a marshmallow when meeting a child, and he will also encourage the children. Later, he became a teacher and did not give up any students. He continued his education career until his death. He would keep every word of Meng Xin in his heart. He truly made Li Chenzhou choose Meng Xin forever. The good thing about Li Chenzhou is that everyone who comes into contact with him hopes that he can live a healthy life and have a better future. For Shen Zhou, it is a pity that he does not know that Meng Xin likes him, and there is no way to hear the names of two people side by side. In fact, the names of Meng Xin and Li Chenzhou have always been together. Teacher Lu will hand over Meng Xin's book to Shen Zhou and will also point out whether he has a good relationship with Meng Xin. Of course, there are also two outstanding seniors who passed the exam in Beijing according to the younger students. Li Chenzhou was fine everywhere, but he still broke the promise. He agreed to go to Beijing to study and watch her play. These promises disappeared with the wind. Although the whole tone is heavy, there is still upward vitality. Everyone is trying hard to live and rewrite their own destiny, and trees and seeds run through the whole story. For Qiu Zhen, the tree moves the dead and the living moves. Where there are mountains and water, there are roads. For Lu Yiqing, what grows out of the mud is not necessarily mud, it may also be a towering tree. For Li Chenzhou, thousands of sails pass by the side of the sinking boat and thousands of trees pass in front of the sick tree. In fact, pain flows through everyone, but in the pool of love and blood, love is still better.
About Qiu Zhen, Lu Yiqing and Meng Xin: They respectively represent the core dilemmas and struggles faced by women in the three periods of middle-aged, young and teenage years. Qiu Zhen is a middle-aged woman who fled the village, symbolizing resistance at the existential level. Lu Yiqing is a young teacher who was bullied but persisted in doing good deeds, symbolizing perseverance at the moral level. Meng Xin is a girl who tore up her gauze skirt to pursue herself, symbolizing the awakening of the soul. They are shadows of each other, forming a closed loop. Just like Qiu Zhen and Lu Yiqing, whose family conditions are not as good as Meng Xin's, they can only go to big cities desperately, while Meng Xin's family conditions are better. It was easy to go to Paris, but Meng Xin finally tore up the gauze skirt and completed the real resistance. The Yangtze River was sometimes turbulent and sometimes gloomy for the three women, but in the end, in the relay of fate, the courage to "cross the river" was passed on from generation to generation. About Shen Zhou and Teacher Lu: The teacher sown a seed of "not giving up". This seed grew into a towering tree in the boy's heart. Instead of enjoying the shade alone, the big tree began to shelter the trees in the entire forest. Not only did he become a teacher, he also became part of the "support system" that Teacher Lu hoped to see. He completed the transformation from "a person saved by light" to "a person who protects the light and allows the light to radiate further". About Shen Zhou and his mother: His mother sacrificed his life to save others in the flood, and Shen Zhou also sacrificed his life rescuing students from the ice disaster. Shen Zhou's father did not understand this behavior at that time. But in the end, Shen Zhou also used his life to answer and interpret his mother's behavior. He understood his mother and completed the inheritance of the transcendent humanitarian spirit. About Shen Zhou and Meng Xin: They live in their own isolated worlds, and they both firmly believe that their names are not worthy of being listed with each other. This secret love is the only light in their gloomy youth, but they all think that this light is one-way and insignificant. At the same time scale, fate provides the most extreme comparison. Meng Xin stood on the bright podium and announced to the world that they "can choose who to be." Shen Zhou used his flesh and blood to practice "who can choose to be" at the cold disaster scene. One of them has reached the pinnacle of life, the other has reached the end of life, but together they have completed the most profound interpretation of "choice" and "existence". They have never been together, but their souls, at that moment, wrote their respective half of the answer to the same proposition. Together they are complete. "We, naked and fragile, fell to the ground with the cry, were born in this world, and in this short and futile life, we have experienced similar sorrows. We will be exhausted until the end of time. You and I are gray-haired. Do you know the answer? I have answered my life so far, and I happily accept you."
When I see this chapter, I always think of a popular sentence in the previous short video: The youthful spirit is something that cannot be regenerated. Shen Zhou himself thinks of him and Meng Xin when he was sixteen. In fact, the youthful spirit is not a kind of immaturity that will eventually disappear, but a life choice that is tempered in the collision with the world. For Li Chenzhou, his youthful spirit has never been wiped out by suffering, but has been forged by it to become more pure. It is said that young people do not understand the feeling of sorrow, but he has deeply experienced the pain of losing a loved one. He knew better than anyone the burden of taking care of his sick grandma and the torment of the disease, the hardship of "living", and it was precisely because he had tasted the taste of loss that he understood the meaning of "guarding" better. He gave up returning to Nanjing for treatment and chose to go to the northwest to continue teaching and educating people, and finally saved people. This was not an impulsive romantic fantasy, but a sober and responsible coming-of-age ceremony - he chose to use his mother's way to crown his life. His youthful spirit is the heroism of "living towards death". A true warrior dares to face the bleak life and the dripping blood. For Meng Xin, her youthful spirit was not tamed by the twisted cage and finally completed the thrilling self-redemption. She went to Beijing to become a star. It seemed that she had already met her mother's expectations. But this was not her strategy to use her own ability to gain a broader battlefield for herself. And at the most important moment, she openly tore into pieces the "gauze skirt" that was defined as a gorgeous symbol of restraint. This behavior is the general declaration of her youthful spirit - I refuse to be molded, I want to be myself. This moment is the real moment of breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly. The youthful spirit is the vitality that breaks out of the ground and the original intention that has not changed. And they are exactly like this.
In fact, the families of Shen Zhou and Meng Xin are also a kind of comparison. Two completely different families: Shen Zhou's family environment was full of imperfections and suffering, but it was precisely these that shaped his selfless soul. The core message he received from his family was "You are loved, you are valuable, and sacrifice and dedication are noble." Therefore, his final path to saving people and self-sacrifice was not a tragedy but a complete realization of values. His family supported him with "love" (two mothers and grandmother), and he magnified this "love" into a "big love" for the world. His life and the life of his mother Forming a closed loop of heroism Meng Xin's family education is another typical "support", but this support is based on a fragile foundation. Her mother's "rules": "can't lose, can't cry" - in a sense, this has indeed cultivated her resilience and competitiveness, allowing her to gain a foothold in the cruel entertainment industry. But in other words, it has cut off her emotional connection. Emotions are not allowed, which means that her true self is not accepted. Her value is completely based on "performance" and "victory" She was "lifted" by her family to a seemingly glorious position, but she felt lost and empty inside. Her family used "rules" and "requirements" to lift her career, but they did not lift her soul. Li Chenzhou is a soul nourished by love who fearlessly answered the question "why to die". Meng Xin is a soul that is broken and rebuilt in the face of demands. She uses her resistance to profoundly interpret the "why to live".
Until death, we don't know how much we like each other and how much we care about each other 😭 😭 😭
Go and fight, go and fight with your destiny in an upright and upright manner 😭 😭 😭
It's just a gentle life. It's so difficult for Shen Zhou. Alas, fate
How much pain must it be to want to commit suicide in a dream? It's not a pity to lose the power of life. Even for Shen Zhou, Meng Xin
The girl looked back and laughed at me for not following her 😭 😭 😭