With realistic prose, Wild Love Chronicles records all manner of bizarre, twisted loves. Two children bound together by rumors of their fates grow up side by side in Sibao Village, deep in the mountains along the Wumeng range. Childhood sweethearts who love each other deeply, they pledge themselves to one another, but poverty tears them apart for good. Each chooses a path leading to the city, where they pursue success by trading on their looks and bodies. After years of ups and downs, they eventually return to their hometown in old age, put desire behind them, and settle down as neighbors. These two "mirror people" from the bottom of society climb the social ladder along similar paths, achieving success through similar "original sins," only to discover at the end that none of the splendor compares to the boy or girl they once were. This is a love story repeatedly torn apart by poverty and fate, and the full journey of a rural woman from endurance to murder. It is also a story about how poverty crushes love, how silence builds into hatred, and how a woman picks up a knife when she has nowhere left to retreat. Trapped between the times and their fates, the two spend most of their lives answering the same question: When you only live once, should you accept your fate?
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