Religious Women

Author: Jiang Limin
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Perhaps, love at first sight comes from an inexplicable fate from a past life. Perhaps, a woman's ultimate obsession is like falling into a disaster. A Chinese white-collar lady working for a foreign company, noble, intelligent, and outstanding in both talent and appearance, meets an aging American man with a weathered face. After their encounter, she becomes lost in a trance, and in an unbelievable way, starts a love story that is both earth-shattering and inexplicable. She loves with a madness that drains her heart, her intestines twisting nine times a day, her mind trembling with fear and suspicion, sinking into depths only to be reborn again and again. Until love becomes a torment, an addiction, a chronic physical ailment, a hallucination of hearing and sight, an unbearable suffering that is life and death, seemingly heartless yet deeply affectionate, like the unexpected and unbearable passage of spring into autumn. When she knows that the male protagonist is not devoted, she still pursues lifelong companionship with the essence of her entire life; knowing that their psychological, cultural, age, and personality differences are vast, her obsession becomes a soulmate who torments her, willingly becoming a living prisoner of emotions and sinking deeper into seclusion.