If there is a next life

Author: Wang Qilin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: A complex and intricate story. During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Tiancheng was forced by a group of villains to ransack his friend Ye Yanfeng's home. In the process, Ye Yanfeng's mother, unable to bear the humiliation, committed suicide on the spot. Ye Yanfeng was beaten into a lifelong disability, and the family's treasured heirloom—the Jade Gourd—disappeared without a trace. Twenty years later, the grievances and enmities of several generations revolve around this rare treasure in this book.
Content: As the streetlights flicker on, Xuande City welcomes another night. This city seems to never change, yet it also seems to always be changing. So, the people living here do not know what they have given to the city, nor do they realize what the city has taken from them. In short, they face a city they can never truly understand, though it belongs to them. All they can do is continue their lives, which are full of vibrant colors but painted in an overwhelmingly pale hue. An unforgiving city and a group of passionate people move along their respective paths, as if they will never intersect, yet they are undeniably overlapping in reality.