Plain Life (Revised Edition)

Author: Haiyan
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: When the provincial beauty Ding You was 14, she accidentally saw the heroic posture of the teenage boxing champion Zhou Yue at the boxing gym where her sister worked and fell in love with him. A secret crush began that lasted a lifetime. Ding You wrote letter after letter to Zhou Yue, but they all went unanswered. Her attempts to meet him were thwarted by Zhou Yue's coach, who discovered her messages by chance, missing the chance for a happy ending. Even when Ding You was bullied by a gang leader, Zhou Yue's act of bravery to help her did not lead to the development of their relationship. Several years later, unable to endure the torment of the gang, Ding You decided to move to Beijing after learning that Zhou Yue had been accepted into the Beijing Police Academy. Unbeknownst to her, when she finally found Zhou Yue in Beijing, he had been severely injured during an internship and had become a vegetable. When the police department was looking for a nurse for Zhou Yue, Ding You volunteered. Over the following months, under Ding You's meticulous care, Zhou Yue gradually recovered and slowly regained his memories, while Ding You experienced one of the happiest periods of her life. With Zhou Yue's recovery and return to the team, Ding You lost her secret crush again. She began to drift in Beijing and found a well-paying job at a pharmaceutical company, but had to carry a heavy moral burden by spying on business secrets for others. During this process, she met the wealthy Ling boss and his frail son, Ling Xincheng, and in a business transaction, unwillingly gave her virginity to the powerful Hou Minister, who had intended it for Zhou Yue. Just when she had finally managed to stabilize her life, her friend A Ju and her ailing sister and brother-in-law came to rely on Ding You. Out of consideration for her friends, Ding You was unexpectedly involved in a massacre, becoming an unintentional accomplice to the killers in an unexpected way. From then on, the novel enters an irresistible, prolonged climax, as Ding You is caught in the whirlwind of family, love, morality, and loyalty, unable to resist, performing one love-hate, life-and-death drama after another.