Don't say I'm a bachelor.

Author: Mai Zi
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Not knowing the relationship between a person and a city can be so inexplicable and heart-wrenching. Haikou became a deeply hidden, eternal, and cherished spiritual homeland in my drifting life. When I was packing my bags, my family looked at me with overwhelming worry and hesitation. I turned away, lowered my head, and remained silent. I thought, with my quick packing, I must have lost my daughterly demeanor and womanly charm in their eyes. In this book, I want to tell the stories of several older girls who once smiled brightly and were full of womanly charm. Later, as the flowers and leaves of love sprouted in their hearts one after another, then withered, and finally died out, only the fleeting faces of different men they saw through the glass window when the train started were left for them. Thus, their womanly charm gradually diminished like sand leaking from a funnel. Their facial expressions silently transformed, becoming bold and fearless, and cool and subtle. With their heads slightly raised in an unshakable manner, they were actually incredibly soft inside. The leaves are still the same leaves, but they have become entirely different in the morning and evening light. Others can't see it, but they themselves are clearly aware. Seeing their proud expressions mixed with a hint of loneliness, this loneliness, under the urging of time, is growing day by day, like a large venomous snake coiling around their souls. I watch them from afar and can't help but feel a sense of sorrow and melancholy.