Dreamfall Chronicle

Author: Yin Jianling
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: I have always believed that children are the truly living beings in this noisy world, while adults are often dull and ignorant. Over time, life becomes complicated, innocence is lost, and truth becomes indistinguishable from falsehood. As people grow older, they gain while also losing—losing many things they once had in childhood, such as a kind and clear gaze, pure and flawless emotions, and the ability to easily find joy.
Adult life indeed has its own disappointments and imperfections. In fact, a person's life is one of constantly returning to being a child. Adults often find in children the things they have lost. Just like in the famous story The Emperor's New Clothes, children can make adults feel ashamed. Rather than saying the book explores the spirit of law and moral standards, it is more about a return to warmth and beauty, offering a spiritual solace and a call for truth, goodness, and beauty in the realm of imagination. It is a search after loss, and also a rescue of adults by children. This is the author's second powerful work following the highly impactful coming-of-age novel Paper Person. Paper Person has supported countless girls struggling with sexual confusion and pioneered similar themes in China. Five years later, The Cherry in My Heart has accumulated the author's more mature creative talent and reflections. It is deeper, more moving, and more poetic than Paper Person. In recent years, fantasy works have mostly，、. They seem to have reached a narrow point, facing an urgent need for breakthroughs and breaking through stagnation. The emergence of The Cherry in the Wind has opened up a new direction for fantasy works.
Cao Wenxuan—Professor at Peking University, Renowned Writer
Sometimes truth does not reside with adults. Like the characters in the book—Mula, Sakura, the dolphin, and the child-like Quiko—who retain a child's heart—perhaps they are closer to the essence of the world than adults. So, do not dismiss a child's efforts and questions. Please take a moment to learn something from young people.
—Peng Yi, Renowned Children's Literature Critic
This is a book that lets you experience imagination. You read in astonishment, then marvel in awe: How hard and devotedly does this writer walk their own path! Many writers have become worn out, but she shines with vitality, setting a new direction for fantasy works.
Meizi Han—Renowned Children's Literature Writer and Critic
A return to a world of innocence—a philosophical, pure, and beautiful spiritual fantasy epic, an adult fairy tale recommended by teenagers to adults. This is a story about escape, adventure, and search. The girl Sakura, with supernatural abilities, has no background or origin; she comes from a virtual world. Meanwhile, the world of the boy Mula is plagued by the arrival of the sorcerers, who steal humanity's shared treasures, causing the land to bloom with flowers of evil. Adults have lost their original innocence, kindness, and beauty, becoming ugly and chaotic, and this affects their children. Due to the faults of his parents, Mula falls into hardship, losing his name and memories. By chance, Mula meets the magical Sakura and embarks on a journey to find the source of evil, reclaim his name, and fight against the sorcerers. Along the way, with the help of Sakura's unicorn mount, Wind, and the strange bird messenger Angela, they meet the orphan Haizhou and the scavenger Quiko, experiencing various adventures and eerie stories. In deciphering doubts and overcoming evil, their hearts also grow. As for whether they can truly defeat the sorcerers and regain humanity's lost treasures, there is still a long way to go.
The book is divided into four parts, with a thrilling plot and simple yet beautiful language. The author, with her usual poetic and elegant words and unrestrained imagination, paints a grand and beautiful literary scene, like a poem and a painting. Against the backdrop of stunning scenery, the beauty of humanity radiating from the young protagonist is truly heart-stirring.