Like a Dream but Reality

"Dreams and Reality" uses Wang Wenyuan's growth perspective, interweaves the bonds of reality and fantasy dreams, and outlines a life trajectory full of regrets and relief. In reality, Wang Wenyuan was a left-behind child when he was young. He cuddled up to his grandparents to feel the warmth, and then lived with his parents. He faced the laziness and violence of his father Wang Ming and the forbearance and sacrifice of his mother Zhouhui. During his nine years at Guocai School, he met all the happy people. Xia Shutong, who loves her best friend, and Lin Zhixia, who is ignorant of her heartbeat, formed a youthful friendship with friends such as Xie An and Wu Ning, but they were separated due to family background, further education and other realities. Also because of Aunt Wenshan's kindness and Cheng Zhi's short companionship, they touched the warmth of the world. In the dream, he witnessed Bai Ling fulfill his promise throughout his life but was betrayed, witnessed the life-and-death love between Lu Qingyan and Shen Xingmian, the foreshadowing of the mysterious black shadow and the yin and yang energy body, which was a metaphor for fate. Between the illusion of "dream" and the heaviness of "reality", the novel dismantles the confusion of youth, family pain, and interpersonal joys and sorrows, explores the complexity of human nature and the impermanence of fate, and finally precipitates relief for the past in looking back, telling the story of the struggle and growth of ordinary people in the torrent of time.