Mei Lan Mei Lan

Author: Wang Xiaoyun
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: The female college student Yin Xiaotao is beautiful and sentimental. After graduating from university, she joined the workforce. Due to a breakup and family changes, she became a renowned red-light district hostess. She remained chaste and refused to sell her body, becoming a unique sight that attracted many admirers. During her university years, she accompanied her classmates to meet An Wen, leaving a deep impression on him. When they met again, An Wen's persistent pursuit finally won her heart, and they embarked on a passionate romance. She discovered that the noble and sentimental An Wen was a major drug smuggler. Driven by love, she tried to persuade him to go down the right path with her life, but it failed. Disappointed, she returned to her old trade and became an even more notorious red-light hostess, rejecting no one and accumulating money with fervor. Her guilt intensified, compounded by some unexpected events, leading her to leave the world behind and go on a pilgrimage to the snow-capped mountains of Tibet to cleanse her soul, starting a new life as a female writer. The novel realistically portrays Yin Xiaotao's journey from "college student to escort to drug smuggler's lover to red-light hostess to rebirth," with meticulous and profound characterizations. It reflects the lives of a special social group: their rivalries, endless romantic entanglements, the pain and struggle beneath their glamorous and licentious appearances, as well as their true emotions, their conflicts, and the choices and fates of many characters, all of which are thought-provoking.