The Spring of Lavender

Author: Chen Jiang
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: For a long time, reading stories about youth and love has given me two completely opposite feelings. Most original mainland novels seem to be developing into a gloomy and somber tone, the more I read, the more discouraged and even hopeless I become, losing hope and dreams for love and even for young life. The world seems destined to be cold and merciless; in contrast, Taiwan and Hong Kong novels on the same theme seem sunny, as if I were in a paradise outside the world. The stories only feature handsome men and beautiful women, and only romantic and warm scenes, as if the cold world has been left in another hemisphere.
Content of the book: That year, he was still a naive middle school student. He didn’t like studying and was always thinking about bravado and fighting. No one could control him well; in the eyes of teachers and elders, he was an incurable child, and everyone who saw him could only shake their heads and sigh. He was like a knife, only bringing trouble and harm to those around him. In his heart, he believed that was the only way to protect himself from being hurt.
I still remember that year in junior high, when a new teacher came to the class, and she was a fresh graduate from a normal university. She had volunteered to be assigned to this class of underachievers. Like a young bull not afraid of tigers, she believed in this and wanted to guide these students left behind by the school onto a normal path. If you didn’t actually calculate her age, her appearance made it impossible to tell how old she truly was.