Happy Parrot

Author: Wang Hong
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Reading The Paradise Parrot, you feel like Ma Lan, a lone traveler in a winter night, wandering in the polar regions. Accompanied only by your own long shadow, you finally meet your inner self, able to quietly listen to the sound of your silent thoughts and the thumping of your heartbeat. The cold attacks you from all sides, enveloping you, highlighting and magnifying the immediacy of life. Pain becomes sharper, clearer, and heavier. The veil of warmth and ambiguity of the homeland is lifted in Ma Lan's story, revealing not the face one dreams of, but a unique understanding of life, love, and ultimate care after experiencing loneliness and despair in a foreign land. Life is often not elsewhere; it is more likely in one's hometown. The protagonist, Ma Lan, arranges a fake marriage with Oliver at the urging of a whim, only to fall into Oliver's family trap. The mysterious deaths of the two in the Oliver family inadvertently fulfill Ma Lan's curse. Ma Lan wants to marry Oliver for the right to stay, while Ma is willing to make the deal for money. Because Ma Lan only has 2,000 yuan, after the marriage, Ma takes possession of Ma Lan. At the same time, as Ma repeatedly reaches Ma Lan's body and spirit, he also reaches the other shore of life. The love that turned into reality couldn't stop Ma Lan's choice: to give up permanent residency and return to the Red Cliff, a long journey from afar, to her homeland. But their lifestyles, ways of thinking, and the unique essence of their inner selves have already left imprints on each other's hearts. Separation renders time powerless and helpless in their love. This could be a kind of eternity for them.