Love you for two and a half weeks

Author: Xu Kun
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The Beijing female writer Xu Kun, known as "a female chatterbox" by Wang Meng, has always been renowned for her sharp, cynical, and unconventional writing style. Compared to her previous works, "Loving You for Half a Month" is even more polished, agile, and lively, with its concrete imagery and profound philosophy seamlessly blending together. She adopts an extremely unique perspective. Layer by layer, she peels off the beautiful facades of so-called social elites like tycoons, petite bourgeoisie, Confucian merchants, professors, media celebrities, etc., exposing their inner desires and the restlessness of arrogance, narcissism, narrow-mindedness, and vulgarity. It's incisive and utterly satisfying.
Gu Yujin, a real estate tycoon in Beijing, is domineering and dazzling in the business world. After an intimate encounter with a female host, he unexpectedly finds himself and her isolated in a residential unit for two and a half weeks. Gu Yujin's wife, Liang Liru, a beloved university professor, joins a Yunnan-themed travel group with male colleagues to alleviate the pressures and frustrations of daily life. The alluring scenery and passionate desires are all too easy to get lost in, and the duration is also precisely two and a half weeks. In just this short span of two and a half weeks, their lives are profoundly changed. When they meet again, it's already a world of difference.