Aromatic Journey

Author: Qin Xianmao
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: A highly anticipated literary blockbuster in 2006. The film The Fragrance of Love was grandly released nationwide during the 2006 Valentine's Day box office. It is vying for an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at international top film festivals. A heartwarming epic of ordinary Chinese people, spanning 40 years of a woman's life as a virgin, the entanglement of spirit and flesh, a passionate four minutes leaving behind 40 years of nostalgia and emptiness! Four minutes of passion and romance, forty years of longing and sorrow, an asexual marriage, a lifelong commitment filled with love, picturesque landscapes, and a love story as moving as a lullaby. Tolerance, understanding, loyalty, and devotion.
In the 1960s, the 16-year-old Chun Fen (played by Zhang Jingchu) repeatedly encounters a man named Liu Doufeng (played by Nie Yuan) on a long-distance bus, who captures her heart. The journey becomes wonderful as they finally get close to each other on a rainy night, but fate cruelly extinguishes this budding romance. Confused and desolate, Chun Fen's youthful glow fades, but her heart still harbors secret yearnings for love. The long-distance bus continues its winding journey through the mountains, and though Chun Fen's heart beats with longing, fate turns again, and she eventually marries an older master, Cui (played by Fan Wei).
With marriage, Chun Fen's body remains like a flower bud, never blooming, until...