Half fire, half sea

Author: Wang Shuo
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This romantic novel tells the story of "me" in two different life stages from a first-person perspective. Half a Flame, Half the Sea is Wang Shuo's most widely read novel. Its influence can be considered immense. In the first life stage, I am a criminal who lives by extorting money, often impersonating police with my accomplices to extort money from johns in hotel rooms. One day, I met a female student named Wu Di in the park, and from then on, we fell in love. Later, Wu Di turned to the dark side to take revenge on me and ultimately took her own life for me, while I eventually escaped neither arrest nor imprisonment. The second stage is about my life after being granted parole for medical treatment. I met a female student named Hu Yi on a ship traveling to the south, and the circumstances of our meeting were quite similar to when I met Wu Di. When I had already fallen in love with Hu Yi, she was brutally assaulted by two fugitive fake writers. After sending Hu Yi away, I fought fiercely with those two fugitives until the police were called.