Natural color

Author: Lin Xue
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: His arrival was both sudden and natural. Like the brilliance of a giant diamond, it instantly illuminated her heart and eyes. Peeling away the veil of the mortal world, she inhaled the fragrance of life's blossoms and saw the radiant, vibrant smiles hidden deep within life. The heroine, Chen Hong, in the book refuses to submit to an unhappy marriage and skillfully manages her life and career with a rich sensibility and wisdom. Through descriptions of Chen Hong's various behavioral states—such as touch, hearing, smell, and sight—the author portrays the beauty of young, healthy men from multiple perspectives through the lens of a woman. The author boldly celebrates women's scrutiny, appreciation, and enjoyment of men, overturning the traditional Chinese notion that has existed for thousands of years, which confined the appreciation of women solely to men. Instead, the book advocates for an autonomous, healthy, positive love that rejects utilitarianism, values life itself, and embraces instinctual beauty.
This book is the latest long urban romance by renowned emerging female author Lin Xue, following her previous works I Want Wealth and Nowhere to Confide. It tells the stories of several young men and women who meet and connect by chance on their life paths, as well as their various emotional and psychological states when facing love, desire, and sexual barriers. The book portrays the helplessness of life, the longing for harmonious and passionate love, the pursuit of peace, tranquility, warmth, and a life filled with love—unyielding and resilient. It depicts the love-hate relationships, the themes of love and forgiveness between men and women, in a way that is moving, elegant, sincere, and deeply emotional, leaving readers sighing in admiration and reluctant to put it down.
What is particularly noteworthy is that the author, through the heroine Chen Hong's senses—touch, hearing, smell, and sight—portrays the beauty of young, healthy men from multiple angles, scenes, and through various lighting and colors. The author boldly celebrates women's selection, scrutiny, appreciation, and enjoyment of "male beauty," overturning the outdated traditional Chinese notion that confined the appreciation of "female beauty" solely to men. Instead, the book advocates for an autonomous, healthy, positive love that rejects utilitarianism, values life itself, and embraces instinctual beauty.
Like Lin Xue's previous novels, the text in this book is highly imaginative and penetrating, flowing like poetry, resonating like music, shining like sunlight, and displaying the colorful beauty of an oil painting. The genius of her fantastical writing transports us to a paradise of passion and dreams. It is a novel that is pure, youthful, sunny, warm, elegant, exquisite, and full of love and vitality.