Bed on wheels in Paris

Author: Ouyang Haiyan
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Features: Paris has a magic, where everyone can see a different version of themselves. This book is a soul-searching overseas work meticulously crafted by the author during her two years in France. In the novel, the protagonist Shi Kaifeng was originally a simple man who loved his wife and children and lived a modest life. However, fate played tricks on him. In a financial and love rivalry in Paris, the death of his beloved wife led him to lose himself, and the lack of a sense of belonging made him resort to desperate means to amass wealth, ultimately becoming a coveted billionaire in the Parisian Chinese community. It can be said that he chased endlessly in his life—money, women; struggling between his "true self" and "false self." The novel unfolds through two parallel storylines: a father and a son. The emotional entanglements of a man with several vastly different women are reflected in the eyes of a boy with innocent eyes. At the same time, it highlights the cruelty of the adult world as seen through a child's perspective, the ruthless pursuit of wealth, the game of emotions, and the unstable family lives of men and women, all of which are silently condemned. It leaves readers deeply moved while profoundly realizing the most painful and tragic cruelty in the world—nothing is more cruel than "the cruelty between people"; and the immense harm that turbulent and changing lives bring to a child's growth.