Perched Feather

Happy New Year! Today is also the first anniversary of "Qiyu" (栖羽). Wishing everyone a happy new year and all the best! 🥰

A tearful masterpiece by a next-generation prodigy. When the pen of violence pierces the calm of reality, and when surreal wings carry a burning soul, the novel "Qiyu" by Yuewen Group shines with a light that transcends the times through the tearful writing of a genius girl. This is a soul-searching confession from a young female writer. Using the sincerity of youth as ink and the scars of growing up as an inkstone, she weaves her unwavering desire to "become a great person" into her slow-thinking yet incredibly sharp words. The rebellious clashes in the classroom, the stubborn confrontations in the office, and even her self-determination to fall into prostitution—those moments defined as "madness" by the world—are her resolute counterattack against a mediocre life. The "light overflowing from cracked pupils" in her writing is both the unpolished edges of youth and the creative passion nurtured with blood and tears; every stroke is etched with the unique clarity and madness of her youth. The surreal writing style amplifies the penetrating power of this reality. Identifying herself as a "little sparrow," she incessantly comments on and reshapes the world in her own way, concealing the cries and struggles of youth within fantastical imagery of "bones gripping nerves, raising crystalline beads of melting flesh." Her words, wandering the boundaries of reality, are like "dark, old shadows trodden beneath one's feet"—both absurd and real, fragmented and complete, like fantasy, using a surreal shell to encase personal thoughts more fervent than reality itself. "Qi Yu" is a story that is both real and absurd. It features the reckless abandon of escaping school, the profound camaraderie among women of the night, the entanglements between their parents, the collision of two seemingly unrelated souls, and the dark forces raging amidst severed limbs and remains in a mental hospital. This is the epic of life that the author, Xi Su, uses to crown himself through words.