So-called Mr.

Author: Pi Pi
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Pi Pi's new work! Written by Pi Pi, including Desire for Passion and Like Women (later adapted into the TV series Let Love Rule). Praised as a rare and witty, humorous work following Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged! With a touch of skeptical smile, Pi Pi brings to life a bald, infertile, yet kind man (of course, a man) in a story about a civil servant in his forties, revealing a man's pain and reflections on progress. Full of vivid language, sharp, witty, and humorous! When can a man truly become a man? I am forty-two. It is said that many men are this age, and I hope I am different from them—not for the sake of individuality, but perhaps it is true: I don’t know how to ride a bike, nor do I take the bus. I have raised twenty-five kind-hearted tropical fish, and gradually, I began to take on their traits. So others often describe me as "unpredictable" or "elusive." On the surface, I am a gentle and tolerant person—have you ever met many like me? Especially noteworthy is that I hold a minor official position and wield a little power. One day, my wife would realize that men with a bit of authority like me are no longer gentle or tolerant. A man, in a housing allocation "opportunity," loses his two official positions and also his wife and family. Only when "reason" and "chains" see him "free" can they understand what he has truly gained.