Year of Confusion

Author: Luo Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: "Your wife is having an affair with another man." An anonymous letter pushes the already strained marriage life of the petty official Hu Mancheng and his wife to the brink. When the plump and juicy part-time worker Tao, like a water, steps into their home, the career-disappointed Mancheng, who feels life is extremely unrealistic, finally touches the long-desired sexual indulgence. His university teacher wife Yu Qingchuan is also tired of the mundane and trivial life. She wants to prove that she is still a charming woman or that she deserves the love of a young man. Or that she deserves the love of a young man. When she enters the yoga studio and meets the agile young teacher Zong Jian, who has a narcissus complex, like a water sailor, the passionate Qingchuan, whose desires have been suppressed by social norms for a long time, erupts like a volcano. The life efforts of Qingchuan and Mancheng, as well as the other characters involved in their life vortex—romantic and affectionate divorced woman Tu Qiusha, plump and sexy nursing student Xiao Cheng, and elegant psychologist Xiao Jianbai—each scene of sincere dedication and serious play, every struggle and absurd effort, is filled with the author's compassionate feelings for contemporary urban men and women struggling in survival dilemmas, as well as a deep concern and anxiety for life and humanity.