Cold Stone Is Not Cold Yet
寒石未冷
by Passing Day (逝昼)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 3k Words
- Chapters
- 1
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 1y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Synopsis
This is a soul love song and spiritual epic written with life in the huge waves of the times and the silent smoke of gunfire. In late autumn in Jinling, the sycamore leaves are falling. Shen Jingshu, a talented girl from the Chinese Department who came from an old-style official family, was deeply attracted by Gu Qinghe for the first time in the corner of the foreign literature class, that thin, lonely gentleman with piercing eyes, and the light of his foreign thoughts. A throbbing that started with literary resonance quietly sprouted from the thrilling rescue in the library, the companionship with books on snowy nights, and the discussion of Taoism by the oil lamp in the small room, but it was destined to struggle in the troubled times. The undercurrent of the cultural turmoil, the crazy counterattack of the conservative forces, the heavy shackles of the family lineage, and the shadow of jealousy and death brought by the mysterious woman Sumanjun... The obstacles are like invisible giant nets, tightening the two souls who long to get closer. When Gu Qinghe was convicted for his speech and imprisoned in Laohuqiao Model Prison, known as "Hell on Earth", and sentenced to death, the desperate Shen Jingshu traveled to Japan and used his pen as a blade in a foreign country to try to continue his ideological fire. As fate twists, an unexpected reunion reveals the truth about "life and death", but it also lays the foundation for a greater crisis. With the family's full mediation, Gu Qinghe exchanged "death" for an illegitimate life, transformed into a "cold stone", and lived hibernating in the backyard of Shen Mansion. In the silent confinement, with his skinny fingers dipped in his blood, he wrote the "Cold Stone Notes", which provides insight into the times and tortures human nature. Shen Jingshu became his light in the dark night, protecting his body and even his unyielding soul. However, the years of persecution, the heavy burden on his mind, and the numerous scars on his body finally exhausted the life candle of "Han Shi". When he was dying, he solemnly entrusted him with his blood-stained posthumous manuscript. The lover passed away suddenly, and what was left to Shen Jingshu was a wordless tablet on a barren mountain grave and a dying kerosene lamp. However, the fire has not been extinguished. The night is still young. She wiped away her tears, picked up the pen he left behind, and spread out the paper. Shen Jingshu, the girl who was once crazy about love and enlightened by him, stood up from the ashes of her lover's will and became the successor of his spiritual bloodline. Using her pen as a lamp and ink as her blood, she will continue to write in the boundless sea of silence the unfinished enlightenment, the unfrozen ideals, and the eternal inscription that a woman created with her life and words in the cracks of the times. "The Stone Is Not Cold" tells the story of the tragic fate and unyielding character of intellectuals under the crushing influence of the great era. It depicts an unforgettable but tormented forbidden love between teachers and students. It is also a profound elegy and magnificent declaration about the inheritance of ideas and the immortality of the spirit - even if the body turns to ashes, the torch is still passed down; even if there is silence for a long night, the soul has its own echo. Purpose: The character of the literati in the dark age: amidst high political pressure and the smoke of war, the tragic perseverance of intellectuals using their pen as a weapon and their lives as a lantern demonstrates the lofty realm of immortal thought and immortal spirit. The inheritance of souls that transcends life and death: Individual lives will eventually pass away, but the torch of thought and spirit can pass through death in the inheritance, lighting up the journey of successors and realizing another kind of eternity. Awakening and redemption under silent love: Forbidden love has been tortured in the cracks of the times, but it finally becomes an opportunity for women to break free from their shackles, achieve spiritual independence and awaken their values. Words are inscriptions: when names are erased and history is tampered with, true records and unyielding expressions are in themselves the most powerful resistance to power and the most eternal inscription of existence.