Novel There Are Trees in the South Mountain

Yuan Mu's life is like a gorgeous palace that is carefully built but no one lives in it. She has been different since she was a child, with a sense of alienation and precocious wisdom that is incompatible with her surroundings. She has won the love of everyone with her "sensibleness" beyond her age, but no one can enter the lonely city in her heart. She admires beauty and pursues excellence. With her extraordinary aesthetics and tenacity, she has grown from a rural village to a top academic and successful urban elite. Her life trajectory is perfect. However, this "right" path leads to an emotional wasteland. She seems to have the ability to love and be loved. Her pure admiration and secret love for her handsome teachers and outstanding classmates during her student days, as well as her deep but ambiguous bond with her best friend, all flickered in her heart like sparks, but never really started a prairie fire. In the end, she entered a marriage that met worldly expectations, but she also completely locked herself into a loveless cage. When the halo of career fades and the carefully cultivated children have sailed away, betrayal and calculation in marriage become the straw that breaks the camel's back. Half my life has passed and I suddenly look back and realize that I am still the four or five-year-old child who feels lonely in the crowd. She had everything except herself. She began to "break away". This is not an outward resistance, but an inward and profound self-salvation. She must face the problem that has troubled her for most of her life: when a person wins the whole world but loses the connection with herself, how can she regain the warmth of life in loneliness? This is a story about the paradox of "excellence" and "happiness", a social psychological novel that explores modern people's loneliness syndrome and self-awakening.