Gu Yulin's Story

Gu Yulin, a woman born in the 1980s, is the youngest in her family. For Gu Yulin, who is over 50 years old, her hometown has long become a stranger and is gradually fading from her memory. On the contrary, marriage makes Gu Yulin "still fresh in her memory". Her marriage was unfortunate, but when she realized the misfortune, she had become a mother. She had also been "cruel", but her identity as "mother" forced her to return to that suffocating home. At the end of the story, Gu Yulin had a long dream. In that dream, Gu Yulin lived out his own...