The only special day in my life

Author: Jin Jinglin
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: The film adaptation of the novel "Forbidden Love" won the Best Film Award at the 7th Korean Women's Film Festival. A woman who rebels against traditional ethics, a passionate and extramarital love affair. Once again, the 28th sensation in Korea! Compared to love that is incorporated into a legal system and can become a monument, love that subverts life, loses face, and lacks rationality is more charming. Because such love is wild, it exists outside the system, and it is blocked outside the traditional secular world. In my eyes, those who break away from the dull, stale, and repetitive life and demonstrate courage and change in their love are even more beautiful. – Postscript by the author
This novel weaves together loneliness and escape, sorrow and passion, creating a story that is secretive and vividly astonishing, filled with powerful life pulses. Jin Jinglin is breaking free from the real me to find another me, elevating this arduous journey of searching for true self through a beautiful interpretation, and writing this beautiful and special novel. "The Only Special Day in My Life" is a long novel by the renowned Korean female author Jin Jinglin, first published in 1999. Through the extraordinary and passionate extramarital experience of the female protagonist Li Meixin in her marriage, the novel portrays the struggles of contemporary women caught between morality and desire, loyalty and betrayal, emotional trauma and physical pleasure, loneliness and the pursuit of life's primal tension, prompting deep reflection on love, marriage, and sexual desire in modern society. The abundant descriptions of scenery and psychology profoundly highlight the sensitive and delicate emotional experiences of women in the face of the destruction and rebirth of human nature.
After its publication, the novel sparked a strong response from Korean readers, being rereleased 28 times. It was later adapted into the film "Ardor," which premiered in 2002. Upon its release, the film won the Best Film Award and the Best Actress Award at the 7th Korean Women's Film Festival.