My Angel My Love

Author: Hai Lan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: A poignant and sorrowful love story, a deeply moving same-sex romance. Born in Shanghai, lesbian writer Hai Lan, with her unique tenderness and delicacy, carves out a sincere and enduring same-sex love that touches the heart and moves the soul! Perhaps it was fate from a past life, or destiny in this one—two people met under God’s mistaken arrangement. Two who were meant never to love each other, yet they did. What is love? Why does it feel like a sense of loss is already in the air the moment they come together? Why can it only be felt yet never truly grasped? Maybe before falling in love, one suffers from the uncertainty of whether it is love, but why, when clearly in love, do they become helpless because of it?
At the age of 9, Lu Xiaoyu first met Pu Zhenxian. The two children developed feelings for each other. Three years later, Pu Zhenxian moved with his parents overseas, and the two were separated by distance. Lu Xiaoyu fell into longing from then on. For twelve long years, as well as the sincere bonds of friends like Li Jing, nothing could erase the growing affection she had for Pu Zhenxian. Twelve years later, Pu Zhenxian, who was already engaged, returned to China out of longing for Lu Xiaoyu. The two reunited and, after intense inner struggles, finally broke through societal norms to love each other. But their love was too shocking and unconventional, perhaps destined from the start for a tragic end.
Some critics argue that if Blue Sky showed us a heart-stirring male love crushed by the pressures of societal norms and money, then My Angel, My Love presents the emotional experiences of a well-educated modern professional woman at the intersection of tradition and modernity, as well as an unchanging love that defies life and death. It offers a fresh perspective on modern love’s unique exceptions.