Love during the SARS epidemic

Author: Ni Houyu
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: The novel begins with the coincidence that a couple of lovers live in adjacent hospital rooms during the SARS period. It tells a love story spanning over a decade, ultimately ending in the SARS era, using a combination of on-site narration and flashbacks. Poet Ziye and the beautiful graduate student Wu Yueqing fall in love at first sight during a collective training session away from the city. Under the flowers and moon, they left behind passionate love poems filled with passion. However, when the training ended and everything returned to reality, the two found themselves connected yet unable to be together every day. The painful choices and helpless waiting gradually bled the youth from their lives. By the time a breakthrough finally occurred, both had contracted SARS.