Let me love you.

Author: Jing Yao
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: A lonely night in the city, a romantic bar called "Casablanca," an accidental indulgence in life, where the male and female protagonists meet unexpectedly. A woman with a husband, a career, and social status faces a man six years younger than herself. How can this feeling be resolved? A deeply moving love story of life and death, intricate struggles of right and wrong, and the blurred of love between this shore and the other. When the author tells this tragic love story, they don’t retreat into an ivory tower to depict moonlit nights and romantic emotions but instead use a realistic brushstroke to portray the protagonists' integrity, kindness, justice, and courage against the backdrop of a struggle between justice and evil. They describe the protagonists' pain and struggle in the face of love, and the hesitation and vacillation of people caught between the shores of love and the other world. The entire story is filled with distinct characteristics of its era. The story features both the savagery and cruelty of evil forces and the bravery and resilience of the protagonists in their struggle against them; the ugly scramble for fame, power, and profit among ordinary people, as well as the protagonists' unwavering integrity in maintaining their dignity and self-respect. To be precise, this is not a love story about whether one loves or doesn’t love, or whether one can or cannot love, but rather a story about the struggle between the strength and fragility of human nature, and the beauty and ugliness of the world. It can be said that all the helplessness and inevitability of life are subtly yet profoundly hidden within this story. The author, with exquisite craftsmanship and delicate writing, accurately depicts and shapes a series of vivid characters: McGee, Su Zhao, Zhou Ping—each of whom seems to be right beside us, and the joys, sorrows, and struggles they experience could easily happen to us at any moment. Precisely because of this, while reading the book, you may feel moved, shed tears, sigh in frustration, or even smile with understanding. As the story unfolds, you will share the protagonists' joys and sorrows, and like them, be entangled in the whirlpool of emotions, agonizing over how everything should end. At the end of the story, when you see the evil man named Sun Yongchao bring the already scarred love between the male and female protagonists to a heart-stirring conclusion, you can’t help but marvel at the resilience and weight of life, and be astonished at the author’s clever and sharp craftsmanship. Then you’ll sigh in relief, only to taste the helplessness and impermanence of life in the midst of emptiness.