Chapter 291
Wang Jiazhi hasn't had any new inspiration recently, so she's been reading to recharge.
It was a rare long novel by a writer she liked very much. She had only read it once a few years ago and didn't remember the details.
Perhaps writers always run out of ideas. Although this novel is very famous and has been filmed the most times, I feel that the writing is nowhere near as poignant and strange as it was at its peak, and the characters are not as profound as they used to be. It has been adapted the most times because it is one of the few works by this author that contains a romantic story, making it much easier to adapt into a movie than others.
The story revolves around a father who died young, leaving a family of nearly ten. To support the family, the elder sister, heartbroken, broke up with her beloved fiancé and sacrificed herself for the family by becoming a prostitute. As she aged, she married her ugly and vulgar brother-in-law. Because she had several abortions as a prostitute and could no longer bear children, she was abused and despised by him. The younger sister of the heroine was originally deeply in love with the hero, but due to a scheme by the elder sister and brother-in-law, she was raped and became pregnant by him. She was then imprisoned and forced to give birth to the child. Believing the heroine had fallen in love with someone else, the heroine heartbrokenly married someone else. Later, after her sister's death, the heroine married him for the sake of their children. The two met again, already middle-aged, and though they still loved each other deeply, they could never make amends, having missed each other for a lifetime.
Wang Jiazhi didn't particularly like this piece, feeling it fell short of her previous works. This author's previous works were devoid of romance, and when she did write about love, it was awkward.
I think all the other men in the book are better than the hero. He's a complete idiot, cowardly, and incompetent. He's also incredibly emotional, throwing tantrums like a child, and even after marriage, he relies on his wife's dowry to support the family. There's really nothing to recommend him. The heroine is incredibly motivated, talented, and responsible. Why would a girl like her fall for a weak, useless guy?
This time, Wang Jiazhi did not realize that she had liked Kuang Yumin before, and the male protagonist was only a little better than Kuang Yumin, and the male protagonist was not vicious or despicable.
Both of them are college graduates working outside the home, not at all feudal. But when it comes to love, they act like spies, terrified of being discovered. The female protagonist wants to knit a sweater for the male protagonist, but fearing it might be discovered, she first knits one for a mutual friend, then for the male protagonist. It's like working hard to cook a meal but giving it to her friend first instead of her boyfriend. Then, afraid of being caught in a crush, she takes photos with him, hides them, and displays them openly with her best friend, risking the misconception that she and her best friend are the couple.
The hero brought the heroine home, and the two of them acted like thieves, fearing that the heroine's mother would find out about their relationship. The hero even told his family that the heroine was a friend of his good friend, but he also wanted people to misunderstand that the heroine was his good friend's girlfriend.
This is so confusing. They are so open about their relationship, but there is something shameful about it.
Especially since Wang Jiazhi couldn't date openly, she felt that it was unethical for her to have the qualifications but not use them.
Then the two fell in love and couldn't bear to part. But the heroine was afraid that their love would intensify too much and they would have to get married. The family burden on both of them would be heavy and marriage would affect the hero's future. Wang Jiazhi thought to herself: "Such a loser, he has no future if he doesn't get married."
In order to prevent the hero from marrying her on impulse, the heroine deliberately ignored him and reduced their meetings. She also showed her affection to her sister's ex-boyfriend in front of her boyfriend and always told the man how outstanding her sister's ex-boyfriend was.
Wang Jiazhi wondered if the heroine was a fool. Was she afraid they wouldn't break up? Since they were so deeply in love, how could they resist not seeing each other? They'd only been together for a year, not yet an old married couple, and yet they were already rationally cooling off, which showed they weren't deeply in love. Furthermore, the heroine didn't notice that she was being too attentive to her sister's ex-boyfriend in front of the hero, making him jealous. Even someone like me, who'd never been in a relationship, knew that wasn't right. Unless the heroine was a fool.
The romance between the two wasn't particularly engaging, but the subsequent writing was profound and captivating. However, this author is truly cold-blooded. She maintains a constant, godlike perspective, showing no sympathy for her heroine and willingly tormenting her for the sake of story development. The author seems to value only the spirit of love, as if sexual relations are irrelevant, even to the disgusting defilement of her heroine's body.
Wang Jiazhi had to admire him deeply, because she had deep feelings for the male and female protagonists she wrote, and she would definitely not be so cruel.
It's like here, where a beautiful and outstanding girl like my sister is beaten unconscious by my brother-in-law, then stripped and raped all night long, and then she gets pregnant. It's so hard to read.
The most disgusting thing is that my sister later chose to marry my brother-in-law, an ugly, disgusting, rude and illiterate man, for the sake of her child, and was abused for four or five years.
Just thinking about it is more terrifying than death.
Because of this, my younger sister went from being a beautiful and lively girl to a haggard and lifeless girl. After getting married, she lived in seclusion and didn't want to see anyone because she felt she was unclean.
Later, she finally divorced her brother-in-law and got custody of her child. When she saw the male protagonist again, what hurt her most was not being forced to give birth to a child, but why she was so stupid to agree to marry her brother-in-law and be abused for so many years.
Wang Jiazhi felt that she could relate to this situation. The most terrifying thing was not being forced, but the humiliation of not being able to resist.
She couldn't imagine being abused by such a disgusting person for four or five years and then having to bear his child. Wang Jiazhi's desire for her own child was almost entirely due to the child's father. She firmly believed that if she were the heroine, she would find a way to get rid of the child even if she was imprisoned. Giving birth to someone who wanted her so disgusting was more terrifying than death.
At this point, the novel reaches its end, and after the heroine and the hero meet, they hug each other and cry, hug each other and kiss each other. But the heroine still mentions that her sister's ex-boyfriend helped her pay off her debts.
Don’t you think he has enough misunderstandings? If the heroine and her sister’s ex-boyfriend had no sense of boundaries, the hero would not have easily believed that the heroine had fallen in love with someone else after the incident. He married her sister’s ex-boyfriend and gave up looking for the heroine.
Wang Jiazhi had originally been very fond of her ex-boyfriend, a handsome, quiet, mature, and ambitious person. But he was so heartless. He had loved her sister so much at first, but years later, when he saw her sister again, who had ruined her life for her family and lived a miserable life, he was cold and disgusted. He was also very cold when he learned of her tragic death. He liked her sister not because she resembled her, but because he had always liked that type of girl. Less than a month after her sister rejected him, he married someone else. After they got married, he learned her address and would visit her late at night, even in the pouring rain.
They were both defiled. He thought his sister was a prostitute, dirty and unworthy of lingering, and that his sister's death was no cause for pity. His younger sister was also defiled, but forced upon her. He's obsessed with it all his life, even helping her pay off her debts and snatching custody of their child. What a hypocrite!
Thinking of this, Wang Jiazhi's book slipped from her legs and fell heavily to the floor.
In his previous life, he might have been so angry not just because of that one thing. She felt really stupid. Why did she only think of it now? It was probably because of Kuang Yumin.
They'd discussed everything, and of course, Kuang Yumin would be mentioned first. She hadn't wanted to join initially, but she'd only gone because she liked him. And she'd even done something like that for him. Kuang Yumin was a big talker, especially since she'd rejected him back then. He must have held a grudge, and he didn't know how to tell her how infatuated she was with him, how she'd sacrificed everything for him. She'd be furious just hearing that, let alone Old Yi.
Then he would definitely think that she truly loved Kuang Yumin, and that she did such a disgusting thing for him. If she could be with such a disgusting person, she could be even more so with him. That was why he was so resolute. What was there to be nostalgic about a person who had no feelings for her and was not clean? She thought that if it were her, she would have wanted to kill herself just like that.
Wang Jiazhi felt like there was a huge stone pressing on her chest, and she couldn't get it down no matter what.
Although she understood Tess's feelings, she also felt it wasn't worth it. If she hadn't killed that man, she could have lived happily with her husband forever. Why act so impulsively? But the torture she experienced later taught her that any rationality was useless in the face of the torture of being cut into pieces. Knowing that both she and the man would perish together, she simply couldn't help but kill him. Countless times, she had thought that if she saw Liang Runsheng, she would really want to cut him into pieces.
Liang Runsheng always feigned innocence and insignificance, as if, like her, they were forced into this situation. He knew she disgusted him to death, that those people were deliberately using him to disgust and destroy themselves. If he had just refused, at least he wouldn't be as disgusting as he was. He just wanted to take advantage, to enjoy the filthy pleasure of a toad destroying a swan. He was just as vicious and disgusting as them. She didn't care about the responsibility she had to bear. She really wanted him dead. If God didn't take him, he would cut him into pieces.
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