Loved you for two and a half weeks

Author: Xu Kun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Beijing female writer Xu Kun, known as "a woman who talks big" by Wang Meng, has always been famous for her sharp, biting, and unconventional writing style. Compared to her previous works, "Loving You for Half a Month" is even more mature, light, and agile, with its concrete imagery and profound philosophy seamlessly blending together. She adopts an extremely unique perspective. Layer by layer, she peels off the beautiful masks of so-called social elites like tycoons, petite bourgeoisie, Confucian merchants, professors, media celebrities, etc., revealing their inner desires and the restlessness of arrogance, narcissism, narrow-mindedness, and vulgarity. It's incisive and exhilarating. Beijing real estate tycoon Guo Yuejin, domineering and brilliant in the business world, unexpectedly finds himself and a female host isolated in a residential unit for two and a half weeks after an intimate encounter. Guo's wife, Liang Liru, a beloved university professor, joins a Yunnan-themed travel group with male colleagues to relieve the pressures of life. The alluring scenery and passionate desires are all too easy to get lost in, and the time is also exactly two and a half weeks. In just two and a half short weeks, their lives are profoundly changed, and when they meet again, it's already a world of difference.