Beijing Past

Author: Xu Mingtao
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is China's first true psychological novel, telling the chilling love story of a middle-aged writer suffering from depression. Due to imagined suspicions and fears, it ultimately led to someone hiring a hitman to kill his wife, someone committing suicide, someone being imprisoned, and someone going mad in a tragic outcome. Currently, CCTV has acquired the rights to adapt this book into a television series for a significant investment. A major mental health drama is about to air nationwide. This story that once moved countless people will once again shake your soul. In fact, it is a murder case composed of many good people in a fateful way. The sole purpose of the murderer was to transfer his sister, a primary school teacher in the Changbai Mountains, to Beijing, because when he was in prison, his sister ruined two pairs of shoes while visiting him. A simple and mad young woman, hired to kill for love, had already collapsed mentally and taken her own life by the time the murderer arrived. The murderer claimed credit for the "achievement," causing unprecedented controversy in the legal field. This is a heart-shattering novel. Contemporary Chinese people are pushed to the brink by the overwhelming material tide, and the secrets from the depths of human nature are astonishing. The author, with unprecedented courage and the recently popular "prop-free narration" technique in Western and European literature, tells us the chilling love story of a middle-aged writer with psychological disorders. All the characters in the book have unspeakable deadlocks in their hearts. While analyzing and revealing these unspoken inner deadlocks, the author also explores and reveals the deeper reasons for our existential dilemmas. Fear and conscience intertwine, and decadence and love coexist. The author battles between the two extremes of human nature, interpreting the irreversible roots of human tragedy in a specific period with a new attitude and perspective. At the same time, the author issues a cry through negative examples: We pursue mood.