The Heart is Like a Lotus Blooming

The sky was gray and it looked like a heavy snow was about to fall. I couldn't feel the wind, but there was a cold air that rushed to my face and penetrated through my clothes and into my bones. The road outside the gate of my grandpa's compound was still an east-west dirt road, eight or nine meters wide. The color of the road was so yellow that it turned white. Several long ruts led to the road and turned. The ruts are concave, and there are edges on both sides of the ruts, like the frozen well ropes being dragged away, winding and stiff. On this winter day, on this road, more than thirty filial sons and grandsons of my grandpa knelt down towards my grandpa's coffin. Behind the coffin were several tricycles, on which were seated my mother, aunt, sister-in-law and other female relatives. Grandpa's coffin has been placed on the eighteen arranged poles, and a classically decorated, gorgeous and elegant coffin cover has been buckled.

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is the latest novel to restore a Thomas Mann full of desires and secrets. The British Frio Literary Award-winning work was selected as one of the top ten historical novels of 2021 by The New York Times, and was selected as the annual book by The Washington Post, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. "The Magician" opens in the small German town of Lübeck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where the boy Thomas Mann grew up with a conservative father who was bound by ethics and a charming and elusive mother from Brazil. Young Mann hid his artistic ambitions from his father and his sexual orientation from everyone. He was attracted by the richest and most educated Jewish family in Munich, married the family's daughter Katia, and had six children. While on vacation in Italy, Mann developed a desire for a boy he met on the beach and wrote the story of "Death in Venice." While accompanying Katia to recuperate in Switzerland, he was fascinated by the inescapable mountain atmosphere and wrote "The Magic Mountain". He became the most successful novelist of his time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and people repeatedly looked forward to his political statements. He fled Germany and traveled to Switzerland, France, and the United States. His wanderings ended in Kirchberg, south of Zurich. This is an epic family saga set across half a century, through World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Cold War. Tóibín crafts a complex yet sympathetic writer who has struggled throughout his life with his inner desires, his family, and the turbulent times they lived through.

Jingfei Guo stars in the original novel of the online drama series "The Dark One", which is one of China's top high-intelligence crime novels. Penguin Random House bought the English rights at a sky-high price, setting off another overseas reading boom after "The Three-Body Problem". To defeat the flawless high-IQ killer, you have to be crazier than him! Anyone who receives a "death notice" will be brutally killed by a mysterious killer on the predicted date. Even if the victim calls the police and the police set up a tight dragnet and provide personal protection to the victim, the mysterious killer can still easily kill the victim under heavy ambush. All the killings took place under the eyes of the police, and every arrest operation by the police ended in failure.

"The Master of Suspense Tells Stories": The most fascinating N suspense stories in the world. The strange attraction brought to you by the Master of Suspense will be irresistible to you. More than ten world-famous suspense masters including Hitchcock, Edgar Allen Poe, and Agatha Christie all appeared on stage. Dozens of suspenseful works with ups and downs such as "Nightingale Villa", "Midnight Tracking", "Fifteen Doctors Who Killed", etc. Have appeared on the page. Open this book quickly, test your imagination, and start a real competition of wisdom with the masters.

"Jingfeng Miyu" is the second volume of "Emperor Kangxi". It describes Kangxi's foresight and talent in putting down the rebellion of the "Three Feudatories". After the wise capture of Obei, Kangxi personally took charge of the affairs of the court, and there was relative stability within the court. However, the domestic situation was still very dangerous and full of crises; there was the separatist regime of the Three Feudatories in the south headed by Wu Sangui, and there was a mutiny by Wang Fuchen's subordinates in the northwest. Yang Qilong, who pretended to be the third prince of Zhu in the Central Plains, gathered people to make trouble again, and colluded with the eunuchs in the harem to cooperate secretly. Before withdrawing from the feudal vassal, Kangxi, with the assistance of a group of civil servants and generals, made careful military, political, and financial arrangements, and successively smashed the corrupt forces' spy wars and honey traps. After a life-and-death struggle with swords and swords, he finally defeated Wu Sangui's rebellion and safeguarded the unity of the country.

Xiao Shiyilang is a "big thief" who comes and goes without a trace and is free and easy. He is chivalrous and loyal. Feng Siniang told him that the mysterious deer-cutting knife, which was watched by everyone in the martial arts world, entered the Central Plains. Suddenly, there was a war in the rivers and lakes. Xiao Shiyilang was repeatedly framed and deeply involved in this turmoil. However, he also met Shen Bijun, the most beautiful woman in the martial arts world and the wife of the aristocratic son Lian Chengbi. From then on, Xiao, Shen, and Lian began a life of entangled grudges...

"The Wasted City" came out in 1993 and caused a sensation in the Chinese literary world. While receiving rave reviews, it also caused controversy. In 1997, "The Wasted City" won the Femina Prize, France's three major literary awards, and won international reputation. The novel fictionalizes a city in Xijing in the 1980s, and describes the love affairs of writer Zhuang Zhidie, one of the four major cultural celebrities in Xijing, and his depression, boredom, decadence, and ultimately destruction. In addition to depicting the characters' spiritual dilemma, the novel also has a meaningful depiction of social life, and there is a profound resonance between the two.

In the Public Security Bureau, the Pre-Trial Division is a key department that determines the suspect's criminal characterization and whether to transfer the suspect to the Procuratorate for criminal processing. Because of their importance, everyone who can stay in the pre-trial office is a generalist, and the elite among them are called Mingti. The old guy Qi Xiaoshi is one of the real names in old Beijing. He relies on three packs of cigarettes, half a cup of tea, two walnuts and the invincible "seven-hour magic weapon" to win any case. Now that he has reached retirement age, he should have taken on small cases until retirement. But a major economic investigation case caused by suicide made Qi Xiaoshi change his mind...

When a person's soul becomes powerful to a certain extent, it will develop an ability that is close to that of a god. In our world, there are hidden people with this super power. What I am about to tell you is the story of one of them...

"Masked Hotel" mainly tells the story of the serial murders that occurred in the high-end hotel "Tokyo Cortesia". Kosuke Nitta, the detective from the Metropolitan Police Department who is responsible for tracking the incident, sneaks into the hotel disguised as a waiter and explores the mystery of the serial murders with the receptionist Naomi Yamagishi. The story begins with a series of codes left at the scene of three consecutive murders in Tokyo. The investigation headquarters analyzed the codes of these three incidents and deduced that the fourth murder would occur at the "Tokyo Cortesia Hotel". In order to prevent the fourth incident from happening, several investigators were placed in the hotel to conduct search operations as waiters. One of the investigators is Detective Kosuke Nitta of the First Investigation Division. Yamagishi Naomi, the outstanding front desk receptionist appointed by the hotel to serve as Nitta Kosuke's assistant, had a disagreement with Nitta Kosuke in the early stages of the police investigation. The job of the police is to tear off the mask of the opponent, but the job of Naomi Yamagishi and the others is to protect the masks of the guests. The situation of both conflict and cooperation has brought countless unpredictable situations to the solution of the case. But as time goes by, they sometimes exchange the starting points of the waiter and the investigator, sometimes become opposed by conflicts of opinions, and experience the sad and happy stories that happen in the hotel's daily life. Slowly a deep trusting relationship formed between the two. Keigo Higashino presents the growth process of a mortal through the detective Kosuke Nitta, as well as the subtle psychological changes between people from being wary of each other to actively understanding.

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A letter asking for help brought Poirot to France, but he arrived too late because his client had been stabbed to death with a paper knife and lay face down in a grave on a golf course. Why did the deceased's coat grow a lot? To whom is the passionate love letter in the coat pocket addressed? Before Poirot had time to figure out these problems, the second corpse appeared in the same way...

On November 10, "Murder on the Orient Express" was put on the big screen again after 43 years, starring Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp and many other top actors. In 1974, Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for the film of the same name adapted from the book, and the Queen of England attended the premiere of the film. This book is based on the sensational real-life case "The Kidnapping of Lindbergh's Sons" in 1932, which vividly demonstrates the author's profound skill in portraying group portraits. Detective Poirot completed a commission in Syria and wanted to return home on the Simplon Orient Express. The strange thing is that it seems that people all over the world choose to travel on that night, and it is hard to get a ticket for this luxury train, which always has ample berths. Fortunately, he met his good friend Mr. Booker, the director of the International Bus Company, and then he squeezed into the car. After midnight, a heavy snowfall forced the Simplon to stop. Early the next morning, everyone discovered that one passenger was missing. An American died in his box, stabbed twelve times, but the door to his box was locked. As the investigation deepened, the case seemed to become more complicated and confusing. Detective Poirot came up with two completely different explanations...

Jingqiu is a beautiful city girl. Because her father is a descendant of a landlord, her family background is not good, and she was hit hard during the Cultural Revolution. Jingqiu has always had low self-esteem. Jingqiu and a group of students went to Xicunping to experience life and compile teaching materials. She stayed at the village chief's house and met "the third child". The third child fell in love with Jingqiu and liked him very much. Jingqiu was afraid that he would deceive her, so she often avoided him at first. The handsome and talented Lao San is the son of the commander of the military region, but he is a man who values ​​friendship very much. He is willing to do anything for Jingqiu, giving Jingqiu unprecedented encouragement. He was waiting for Jingqiu to graduate, for Jingqiu to work, and for Jingqiu to become a full-time employee. When all Jingqiu's wishes came true, the third child died of leukemia. At that time, in 1976, he was still very young.

The TV series of the same name stars Zhong Hanliang, Ma Tianyu, and Sun Yi. The love that arose when we were young will never be forgotten in this life. If love is a bond, then she is his in this world, and the ground is a prison. The frost and snow blowing all over my head can be regarded as a white head. Liang Sheng: Let's start over. As of now, you are seventeen and I am nineteen. OK? Cheng Tianyou: I love you, this is the greatest match between us! Jiang Sheng: I can't stop my heart and my love. They grow in the dark, suffering alone and happy alone! Qian Zhi: I proposed in the hospital. I just want you to know that from now on, no matter life, old age, illness or death, I will never leave you. Babao: My brother is in charge of stripping, I am in charge of dancing, and Ke Xiaorou is in charge of motherhood. Cheng Tianen: The person I couldn't let go of for a long time, I let go of at this moment. The love that I have loved for so long is no longer in love. Ning Xin: I am the first woman in the world who was loved by him! I will also be the only woman in the world who is loved by him!

The manuscript of this book is divided into three parts: "The Scream", "Pseudo-Freedom" and "Quasi-Feng Yue Tan (Excerpt)". Among them, "The Scream" contains 14 novels written by the author from 1918 to 1922. These novels truly depict the social life from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement. Starting from revolutionary democracy, with the purpose of enlightenment and the spirit of humanitarianism, they reveal various deep-seated social contradictions, conduct a profound analysis and relatively complete negation of China's old system and outdated traditional concepts, and show a strong sense of worry for national survival and a strong desire for social change. "Pseudo-Freedom" contains 42 essays written by the author from January to May 1933. "Quasi Feng Yue Tan (Excerpt)" contains 8 essays written by the author in 1933.

This series of books uses the perspective of ordinary people to peel off the bones of historical materials from the past to the present, stripping away the political and literary attire of history, and peeling off layers of old suits, allowing you to step out of the brainwashed and obscured history and see the original body of history. What you are seeing now is real history - full frontal nudity, passionate perspective, vivid and flesh-and-blood! ! ! Is Huangdi a technical geek? Behind the abdication of the Five Emperors, political conspiracies of "princelings" fighting against "son-in-law gangs" were unfolding everywhere. Why did Dayu and Tushan fail to carry out their love to the end? Jiang Ziya was unable to do anything, and he ate everything without leaving anything. King Zhou Wen actually liked this about him. During the Spring and Autumn Period, etiquette broke down and music collapsed, and the drama of power reversal and elimination was staged everywhere. Confucius, Laozi, and Mozi took turns to appear. How did they make political investments? Are Xia Jie and Shang Zhou really so cruel? What are the unspeakable secrets behind Pan Geng's move to the capital? King Wen of Zhou married the aunt of King Zhou of Shang, and they turned out to be one family.

"Pride and Prejudice" mainly talks about Austen's satirical art, which is not only reflected in the comic characters of certain characters, nor in the comic treatment of many plots, but also integrated into the ironic conception of the entire story, allowing reality to ridicule people's subjective imagination. The male protagonist Darcy initially concluded that the Bennet family had so many disadvantages that it would be difficult for the daughters to find a man of status, but later it was he who married Elizabeth. As for Elizabeth, she had vowed never to marry Darcy, but in the end she became Mrs. Darcy. Let's look at the arrogant Lady Catherine de Boer. In order to prevent Elizabeth from marrying her nephew Darcy, she worked tirelessly and personally. First she came to intimidate Elizabeth, and then she ran to admonish Darcy. Little did she know that it was her trip that communicated messages between the two young people who fell in love silently, and promoted their happy union.

The series "I Think of Good Times as a Dream" is loved by thousands of readers. Love is a matter of not meeting the right person at the right time, or it has been defeated by reality. If everything is just right, there will be no need for all the obsessions and arrows that will pierce the heart later. Shou Shou originally thought that she and Yi Changning were the two most compatible with her in this life. They could not be abandoned and irresistible. After all the hardships, they would eventually be together. However, the happiness that was once certain collapsed overnight, and all the illusions were shattered. Love was no longer love, and hate was no longer hate... Ji Nanfang was a piece of driftwood that she kept guarding at this time. She was originally a childhood sweetheart and a brother-in-law, but she was at a loss and resisted. The past is filled with smoke and dust. Three years later, Yi Changning returns with unknown secrets. Ji Nanfang's deep love that has never been revealed is slowly revealed... Some people go through fire and water for love, some never return for love, and some persist to the end even though they know it is a dead end. Not being able to ask for it, being separated from love, and everything else in life is like this.

This book contains almost all elements of crime and all the ugliness of human nature. Every murder makes people's scalp numb. The real murderer has been hiding in the dark corner behind us, sleeping and dining with us. Behind the desperate struggle between good and evil is full of despair, resentment, jealousy, greed, and arrogance. The most secretive and unspeakable files of the Public Security Department are completely exposed. You will go deep into the crime scene and face the most frightening, heaviest and incomprehensible evils of human nature! A series of mysterious deaths and a series of the most bizarre criminal methods. There is actually only one step between humans and demons. It's dark, please don't close your eyes!