Female peak

Author: Zhao Xuelin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: In today's China, where society has fully entered the era of commodity, apart from a small number of educated women who lead a decent life with their skills, a considerable number of young women from ordinary families with some beauty are placing their future fate in marriage—they always hope to leverage their appearance to gain a middle-class life of comfort and security through marriage. To achieve this goal, they tirelessly focus on shaping their external image and refuse to make even a tiny bit of subjective effort for their dreams. Under the guise of searching for an ideal partner, they run around various social occasions, employing their wisdom in the love game of cat and mouse. Although they lost their dreams and passion for love in their teenage years and even, love and marriage have become, for some unmarried women, a competition for profit. In the "bargain of beauty for money" emotional market, love has turned into a special game of cat and mouse for urban "beauties": using sexual charm to attract, feigning affection under the guise of love to share the wealth of pursuers, and when they finally succeed in entering transactional marriages, they take pride in becoming members of the leisure class. Whether we admit it or not, in today's Chinese cities, no force can change the transactional nature of love and marriage. But this does not mean that women can gain lifelong security through sexual charm. In fact, marriage structures that overly emphasize material forms, disdain knowledge, and abandon subjective efforts are precisely tragic breeding grounds in today's market competition. Whoever treats marriage as finding a lifelong meal ticket and abandons the pursuit of ideals undoubtedly places their future fate on thin ice—whether they waste their youth playing love games or become impoverished when their families break up due to having no skills, in the end, the real victims are those who bet their happiness on the "sexual charm survival" roulette. In contrast to these "empty-handed white wolf" seekers, women who are down-to-earth in pursuing lofty ideals have gained what they desire through persistent self-struggle and a belief in wisdom over wealth: true love, harmonious marriage, and a real, passionate life. If this book can prompt urban women to conduct an introspection of their own lifestyles, the author will be gratified.