Love and marriage are eternal themes in literature.
There are many kinds of love and marriage: love at first sight, childhood sweethearts, arranged marriages, matches made by a matchmaker, relationships born of necessity, love in pursuit of a dream, love found by chance, and love forged through shared hardship.
You can also divide love into passionate love, playful love, friendship, dependent love, altruistic love, and practical love.
Lao Liu, the middle-aged protagonist with a thing for older women, has endured a failed marriage, great ups and downs, and disillusionment with the world. He lives in seclusion, wanting nothing and finding everything tedious.
After a chance encounter and a stroke of fate, can this heart, buried beneath a thick layer of dust, begin beating passionately once more?
The novel is threaded throughout with the wisdom of life. It depicts everyday life in a down-to-earth way, offers guidance through life's dilemmas, and soothes a restless heart.
The novel features passionate romance, the pain of heartbreak, selfless friendship, tense legal battles, fierce business rivalries, and the wisdom of running a company.
The plot is full of twists and turns, with delicate emotions, extended inner monologues, and beautiful descriptions of scenery.
Purple Sun
The Passionate Years with My Brothers
Northeast China in Turmoil: Black Blood Floods the Songhua River