Makeup Empire

Author: Zhao Ning
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: At the age of 26, Jingwei suddenly becomes aware of her feminine consciousness and remembers her child whom she has never seen. The unintended pregnancy during her youth brought deep psychological trauma to Jingwei. For four years in college, she never had a boyfriend, as if she were atoning for her sins with her body. After graduating from college, she founded a magazine called Carnation Empire, dedicated to exploring women's own issues. Jingwei secretly searches for the child she was secretly abandoned in the hospital. During her search, she discovers that many "problem families" have no happiness at all. Jingwei secretly falls in love with the married man Shao Weitao, seeking comfort in his arms, loving his aura, his kisses and caresses, and everything about him. The abandoned child has vanished into the vast sea of the city, and no one knows how he is doing. Jingwei doesn’t even know if the child is a boy or a girl. She immerses herself in a fantasy world, imagining the abandoned child as a lovely little child—what does he look like? What is the sound of his voice? Jingwei feels as if she is almost going crazy with longing for the child. Is a woman's alluring body a blessing or a curse? A woman's life is always tormented by an unexpected event, making mistakes after mistakes. Their "Carnation Empire" can be both blooming with flowers and unlimited scenery, or scarred and bloody. This is a world where carnation and pain coexist—something invisible to men's eyes.