Quit love

Author: Long Lai
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: A contemporary urban romance novel highly praised by renowned critic La Da and writer Su Tong, serving as a quintessential read on love in the era of the "aesthetes." In a modern metropolis, a group of passionate and sophisticated urbanites, including Prince Mo, Xu Xiaotale, Zhu Jin, Jiang Yidu, Xu Hanshan, and Wang Yufei, who work as journalists, editors, and university teachers, pursue their ideal love in earnest, both loving and hating deeply while struggling in the whirlpool of emotions... With affluent lifestyles, they yearn for a high spiritual life and seek love in their own ways, yet as they savor sweetness and happiness, they also taste the bitterness, helplessness, loss, and confusion of love. After weathering the storms of romance, they decide to give up on love, but can true love ever beed? Through the love entanglements of several couples and lovers, the novel reveals the hidden depths of contemporary Chinese emotions and reflects, from one angle, the spiritual world of the modern white-collar class.