Heartstone Series of works by Gao Yang

Author: Gao Yang
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the impoverished scholar Tao Shu and the daughter of his tutor, Sun Bokui, Qiao Yun, are about to marry by their parents' arrangement. Unexpectedly, the local wealthy Wu family snatches the love away, and the Sun family, father and daughter, disdain poverty and seek wealth, readily going along with it. Tao Shu has no choice but to call off the marriage, and through the mediation of Sun's mother, he marries Qiao Yun's maidservant, Qiu Ling, who is also adopted as the Sun family's daughter. Later, Tao Shu passes the imperial examination and enters the Hanlin Academy, achieving success in his career and becoming the Governor of Jiangsu. Meanwhile, the Wu family faces ruin. The former "Beauty of Anyan" Qiao Yun fails in her suicide attempt and ends up living out her days in solitude with books. Truly, life is like a play, and a play is like life.