Beauty's favor

Author: Zhang Henshu
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Zhang Henshu is one of the most productive writers in the history of modern literature in the 20th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, he won countless readers with representative works such as Spring Dawn in the Capital, The Golden Dust Family, and Cries and Laughter, making him the best-selling writer of the time. The story of Beauty's Kindness takes place in Beijing in the 1920s. The heroine, Chang Xiaonan, is born into a poor and destitute family and earns a living by picking up trash. One day, she encounters the unemployed and down-on-his-luck Hong Shiyi, who deeply sympathizes with her fate and uses his meager income from working as a substitute at a charity organization to support the Chang family. The two develop feelings for each other. The beautiful and shapely Chang Xiaonan is later noticed by the leader of the Willow and Dance Troupe, after which she becomes fickle in love, successively abandoning Hong Shiyi and the musician Wang Sun, ultimately ending up in the hands of the dissolute young master Chen Siye, which leads to the downfall of the Chang family. Beauty's Kindness has been adapted into a long-running television drama series.