Women in the embassy area

Author: Qin Zihé
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: Whenever the night falls, I often wander at the edge of the city, letting my love letters roam freely. It's an emotion that feels distant yet unforgettable to me, much like the women I see in the embassy districts. They carry a faint sorrow and resentment, accompanied by the soft glow of candlelight, the rich aroma, and the lingering echoes of "JANIS JOPIN's Light Boats." They drift like water lilies in my gradually cooling mind. This is a cluster of women whose lives bloom tenderly yet stubbornly, and no one dares to say they are not beautiful. The world, the life around us, gains a touch more romance, mystery, and melancholy because of their existence. They soften this rigid world. As these passionate, withered, willful, and obsessed women pass through the author's pen one by one, they bring along the men who are deeply entangled with them.