Love me, take me home

Author: Feng Ming
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: In the meticulously crafted Grand View Garden, the great literary master Cao Xueqin portrayed the sorrows and passions of the women of the Red Chamber. He said he was writing their biographies with his own heart, inspired by the extraordinary women he had encountered throughout his life. In the contemporary, wave-swept southern coastal city, the drifting women He Ru, Yilan, Xiaojiajiao, and Zhu Zhuo come to life vividly in the pen of the female writer Feng Ming. These girls, each with distinct personalities and destinies, view love as a religion, daring to love and hate, living and dying for love, and even willing to die for it. When the storm of love hits, their unbreakable emotions yearn for a promise as precious as gold. With their small shoulders, they bear the hardships that even men cannot or will not endure.
Women from faraway places, chasing ideals between reality and fantasy, write their own tales of hardship and legend with truth, weaving together the passionate atmosphere of the south. The story begins with female journalist He Ru interviewing the controversial young entrepreneur Wang Haitao, unfolding the (twisting and turning) emotional and professional entanglements between the drifting daughters who seek dreams southward and the Shantou men known as the "Eastern Jews."
To escape a relationship, the Sichuan girl He Ru leaves her hometown and takes a job as a journalist at Guangdong's Coastal Literary Collection magazine. In the Shantou Special Economic Zone, with its unique dialect and strong tendency to reject outsiders, love still happens in the wrong places by chance. He Ru and Wang Haitao meet unexpectedly and fall in love. Will they let true love slip by, or will they let their souls resonate, letting love illuminate their lives? With the author's sincere and delicate brushwork, we are presented with a story of intertwined love and hate, full of high points, while also sharply scanning the complex inner worlds and sexual psychology of modern men and women.
The beautiful and wise sisters surrounding He Ru in Shantou have vastly different attitudes toward life and fate. The self-respecting Lin Yilan has fired her boss multiple times and fought back to become an outstanding female boss. When her classmates and assistants betray her, she once loses herself. The free-spirited Xiaojiajiao, whose art studio is thriving, is victimized on the night before her wedding when she is about to marry. The romantic and passionate Zhu Zhuo, like a moth to a flame, falls in love with a married man, jumps into the sea in despair, is saved, and finally distances herself from the mortal world. The female secretary Chen Diandian is pushed out of the company and leaves Shantou. The manipulative Yang Hong, with all his schemes, poisons Xiaojiajiao and destroys himself and the men of the coastal city.
Facing these colorful, foreign daughters, when they encounter unavoidable emotional and financial conflicts that cannot be resolved, they...