My name is Jin Sanshun

Author: Chi Xiuxian
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The last day of twenty-nine holds a special significance for women, symbolizing farewell. Fortunately, the world is not absolute. The popular novel I’m Kim Sam-sun by Chi Xiuxian, recommended by a friend, brought warm "lemon-colored sunshine" to lonely women in the afternoon. It’s rare to see a typical, normal, and ordinary thirty-year-old unmarried woman like Kim Sam-sun as the protagonist. She is a 29-year-old spinster without education, beauty, or weight, who has suffered love injuries. Her profession is a baker, with a specialty in baking bread, and a hobby of eating the bread she bakes. Yet, she was fired from a restaurant before Christmas. It’s rare for a story as romantic as this to bring readers a sense of inspiration and uplift. After being dumped by her boyfriend, Kim Sam-sun, who is determined to catch the last tail of her twenty-nine years and marry an ordinary person, ends up marrying the perfect dream lover for all women—a wealthy and handsome group heir who loves her. This is all thanks to Sam-sun’s kindness, strength, optimism, and unwavering pursuit of sweet dreams.
It’s rare that I read this novel twice, for it once again showed me the face of love. For a thirty-year-old unmarried woman, true heartache may not stem from age but from losing faith in love. But who dictates that maturity means breaking the fairy tale of love? As long as you believe and strive, when the rain of love falls, a withered heart will no longer be pierced by age! Let’s bravely step into our thirties with Sam-sun and become women of happiness!
Source: Xinmin Evening News
My story is like Sam-sun’s cake. Though it may not be as glamorous as the photo of the cake in the book, it’s still a delicious fresh milk cake that makes one want to taste it. I want to share this cake with everyone, especially with all the Kim Sam-sun ladies in the world.
The possibility of a woman over thirty falling in love is smaller than the chance of being hit by a bomb on the road? Don’t make jokes! Yesterday, I watched a German movie where the female protagonist said, "The possibility of a woman over thirty falling in love is smaller than the chance of being hit by a bomb on the road." That’s nonsense! A woman over thirty and weighing over 60 kilograms is still a woman, isn’t she? I refuse to accept it, I refuse to yield! I must find a dashing man, and I must live a good life with the man destined for me.
—Kim Sam-sun
If you’re ugly, your heart must be kind. If your heart isn’t kind, you must be beautiful. It seems this chubby woman has neither, and she always angers people. Either she rear-ends the car in front of her or throws up on someone’s clothes after getting drunk. In a nutshell, she’s a disheveled misfortune. But strangely, since some time, whenever I don’t see that misfortune, I feel restless and uneasy. That woman—did she put something in the cakes I’ve eaten?
—Zhang Daoying
The 29-year-old pastry chef Kim Sam-sun seems like a real misfortune: she’s heartbroken, unemployed, crashes while learning to drive, snaps her underwear while changing clothes and accidentally enters a men’s restroom, and her ideal date gets ruined by the weird Zhang Daoying... But she never gives up. Her way of dealing with misfortune is to work herself to the bone and eat recklessly. She believes in sincerity and hates lies and everything fake. She doesn’t abandon sincerity because it has been betrayed. Her most practical and romantic wish is to find someone she loves and who loves her.
Though she cares deeply about her chubby body, especially about her unacceptable name, she believes that compared to the flower-like Heo Jin and the "princess" Hye-lyeon, she is insignificant. Yet, her pursuit of true love never diminishes.
Zhang Daoying, 33, is a truly eccentric man. After a car accident while traveling with his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, they died, and he and his niece survived. Adding to this, his long-term girlfriend Heo Jin left him when he needed her most, making him cold and sharp. His handsome lips always wear a mocking smile. When he rudely mocks his (blind date) partner with sarcastic words during a blind date at the same café, Kim Sam-sun sees him. Despite his handsome and charming appearance, Sam-sun, who despises evil, sees him as a "monster." Unfortunately, this monster man later becomes Sam-sun’s boss. Due to family matters, Sam-sun borrows a large sum of money from him and reluctantly agrees to help him resist his mother’s demand for him to marry, signing a contract for a fake relationship.
During the fake relationship, they gradually understand each other, especially Sam-sun’s simplicity, honesty, and warmth, which deeply move Daoying’s heart. Just then, Daoying’s former girlfriend, the flower-like Heo Jin, returns.