Hope Stone: A fantasy romance novel written by a sixteen-year-old girl

Author: Li Weihan
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: High school girl Xiaoqi accidentally finds an old Japanese book in the library, leading her into a strange world—a time filled with war and superstition. The princess Xiaosang of Ouhu has an extraordinary background. She is affected by the turbulent era, enduring physical and emotional torment, and entangled in a love that is both a dilemma and a torment. Xiusheng, for the sake of Xiaosang, is willing to betray the curse of the gods, at all costs, just to be able to sleep with his beloved every night with the "Stone of Hope." Through the power brought by the "Stone of Hope," they manage to protect their homeland and hear the voice deep within their hearts, finding true love. Sixteen is an age when one is first falling in love, and the author, through reading the tragic love story in the original book, explores the confusion and longing for love in real life. Perhaps the feeling of "first love" is just as shy and sweet. The princess Xiaosang in the book lives in a world not ruled by humans, but pure love ties her tightly to Musano, who pretends to be her brother Jiesen, and to Xiusheng, who silently loves her from the sidelines. A love story filled with entanglement, twists, and emotions, with the subtle changes in the relationships between the three adding an endless sense of melancholy. Everything in the story is deeply intertwined with Xiaoqi's life, and Xiaoqi comes to a profound understanding of herself and the pure love in her heart from this book. The entire book weaves together the past and the present, as if an invisible needle connects two generations, and even creates a dense connection between the emotional worlds of the two female protagonists in different eras.