life and fate novel

In the ending of " Fate of Half Life," lovers would never be able to get married. After 12 years, Shijun and Manzhen reunited. After crying, they returned to their own lives and continued to suffer. When Shu Hui and Shi Cuizhi met again, one was an international student, and the other was a rich wife. They were like parallel lines that had no intersection. Shijun married Cuizhi, and although his life seemed stable, he lived a depressed life. Manzhen lived alone with Zhu Hongcai's child. After Shu Hui ended a marriage abroad, she had been looking for a replacement for Cuizhi. Cuizhi had Shu Hui's love and a responsible husband like Shijun. As a rich wife, she had the right to speak at home and had a son and a daughter. She could be said to be the winner in life among the four. The novel " Sitting and Watching Immortals " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!

The predecessor of "Half-Life Fate" was Zhang Ailing's novel "Eighteen Springs", which was published in Yi Bao in 1950. After she moved to the United States in her later years, she rewrote it to "depoliticalize" it. From February to July 1967, it was serialised in the monthly magazine "Crown" under the title of "The Story of Distrust." Around 1968 (the time is disputed), Taiwan's Crown Press published a separate edition and renamed it "Half-Life Fate." The novel was set in the old Shanghai of the 1930s, with the love story of Gu Manzhen and Shen Shijun as the main line. It described the love and hate entanglements of many young men and women, as well as their joys and sorrows. Shen Shijun and Xu Shuhui were good friends in university and worked in the same factory after graduation. After Shuhui introduced Shen Shijun to Gu Manzhen, the two of them fell in love with each other. However, Manzhen's sister was a dancer, and their relationship was opposed by Shen's father. Shu Hui accompanied Shijun back to Nanjing to meet Cuizhi, Cuizhi love warm, Shu Hui because of the identity gap did not respond. Manlu was the eldest daughter of the Gu family. She once sacrificed herself for the family. After being abandoned by her husband because of her old lover Zhang Yujin's stimulation and infertility, she resented her husband's coveted sister Manzhen and plotted for Zhu Hongcai to rape and imprison Manzhen. This became the turning point of fate. Shijun misunderstood Manzhen's marriage and married Cuizhi under the arrangement of his parents. Shuhui went to America. When Manzhen gave birth to his son and escaped from the Zhu family, he learned about Shijun's marriage and could only leave. When the two of them met several years later, Manzhen ended the story with a sentence,"We can't go back." The author pays attention to the fate of women, denounces the feudal system and ideology that persecuts women, and reveals the tragic situation of women in the patriarchic society. The novel's writing style is exquisite, the psychological description is meticulous, the characters are vivid, and the use of rhetoric makes it full of artistic charm. The English version was published in 2014, and the novel has been adapted into many art forms. However, some scholars questioned the novel's plagiarism from the American writer Ma Kuande's Mr. Puhan. Zhang Ailing said that she did refer to it but also had her own ideas. The novel "Sitting and Watching Immortals" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!