Nurturing Series - Happiness Concealed

Author: Zhu Jing
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The heroine of this book is the four girls from Room 520 on the 13th floor of N University—Mi Xiaoru, Hai Xiaolan, Yin Xiaohēi, and Yuè Xiaoměi. They share the same room, yet they have distinct appearances, temperaments, and life experiences. The single eyelid girl Mi Xiaoru is naive and late-blooming, yet she faces rumors head-on, playing the role of the protagonist in campus gossip; the beautiful and cheerful Hai Xiaolan is dazzlingly radiant, but she may not always win in the battlefield of love; the simple and ordinary Yin Xiaohēi transforms into a gentle and charming fish because of a certain person; and the fairy tale writer Yuè Xiaoměi is like an unclaimed cat, dreaming that life has many possibilities. The unexpected appearance of Mr. Big makes her realize that the world can no longer return to the beginning place. The four girls, at the peak of their youth, have wandered in their emotional labyrinths, experienced hesitation and confusion, often feeling lost, and occasionally acted decisively and bravely. What they share is that they have never abandoned their initial dreams and persist in searching for the happiness of true love. The book is structured with each girl as the protagonist in separate chapters, which are both independent and interconnected. The seemingly casual shifts in perspective are full of tension and leave a lingering aftertaste, patching together a genuine and enchanting depiction of youthful emotions, like a mystery hidden in plain sight.