Keep making mistakes: A lady of noble birth

Author: Fan Xiaoqing
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book selects two love stories. "When flowers see sorrow, they shed tears; when birds hear hatred, they are startled. Today, the person burying flowers is laughed at as mad, but who will bury you in the future?" These things don’t men understand? They do, but they don’t often keep them in mind, especially not in words. What they hold in their hearts are other things. Men and women’s feelings often go astray, and these differences create misunderstandings and resentments between them, causing pain and sorrow, which in turn give rise to countless love stories. It has long been said that men and women come from different planets, that they are fundamentally two kinds of creatures. Their differences are both innate and lifelong. Moreover, "the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold, and rainbows appear after storms." If their differences were truly eliminated, love would lack misunderstandings and sorrow, leaving only sweet affection—wouldn’t that just be "today’s weather, haha"? If that were the case, the world would be dull enough, and there would be no more love stories to write.
One Mistake After Another meticulously portrays a chance story of a bicycle hitting a taxi. It highlights the kindness and helplessness of the husband, the poverty and helplessness of the migrant worker, the neurosis of the wife, and so on. A university couple’s forced career shift pushes their marriage and life into more exhausting and helpless circumstances—this is the life of one mistake after another. One mistake after another becomes the essence of our lives; it is both death and hope.
The Lady of High Status tells a love story full of Jiangnan charm. The book is illustrated by Nanjing young painter Lü Jiang, who uses postmodern brushstrokes to depict the awakened love perspectives and marital lives of contemporary women.