A brief introduction of Zhang Ailing's " Fate of Half Life "?

Eileen Chang's novel, Half Life, tells a story about love, marriage, family, and human nature. It mainly tells the emotional entanglement between two women. The background of the story was a period of Shanghai society. It was a love story between two women. The protagonists of the story were Cuiyu and Manyu. Cuiyu was the daughter of a wealthy capitalist, while Manyu was the daughter of a poor intellectual. The two of them met and fell in love, but faced many difficulties and obstacles because of their different family and social backgrounds. Their love had gone through many twists and turns, including Cuiyu's adultery and Manyu's suicide. Through the story of Cuiyu and Manyu, the novel explored the problems of love, marriage, family and human nature, showing the local conditions and customs of Shanghai society. The story plot is profound, the twists and turns of the delicate emotional description is one of Zhang Ailing's representative works.