A very sweet story about a beautiful couple which made me ugly cry in the end
still waiting for an update... I want to see where Silver and Luca will go
It's a very good read. Holds your attention, great story!
I love this book. Great story
I don't think I have read a book si beautiful like this befor .
'Is my dad adopted?' — Pear Blossom, age fifteen, delivering the most devastating family critique with the casual energy of a kid asking for candy. This girl has a voice, and I am HERE for it. The dialogue in this section is genuinely impressive because every character sounds different. Mrs. Xiang's dialogue is all sharp edges and loud noises—'You're ungrateful! A person like you should be locked up in prison!' She doesn't negotiate, she attacks. Dagen's dialogue is softer, more measured, but when he speaks up it lands: 'If my wife goes to work, who will I take with me?' Simple sentence, huge defiance. Liu Youcai's dialogue is the most layered—on the surface it's polite conversation, but every sentence is a knife. 'Honestly, I feel bad for you—tsk, but there's no point in saying more since you won't listen anyway.' The condescension is so thick you could spread it on bread. And the villagers? Their dialogue feels like a Greek chorus, commenting on the family's suffering while doing nothing about it. The narrative voice itself is interesting too—it's close third person, mostly following Dagen's perspective, but it dips into other characters' thoughts occasionally. When we get Pear Blossom's internal confidence during the race, or Xiong's embarrassment about walking around the village, it adds texture without slowing things down. The humor is dry and earned—like Dagen's internal thought about being a 'senior' soldier at thirty-five, or Pear Blossom teasing him about his age before absolutely destroying him in a race.
I would really love to finish reading this book.
My anxiety is is just increasing. Please don't let Asher ruin everything.
An intriguing read, loved how relatable the characters are. very engaging style of writing, will wait for more uploads
So spicy! I love it!
Second Time reading, still loved it!
I need to talk about this one moment. You know the one. She's on the rooftop, about to jump, and suddenly she remembers the summer of 1970. The scorching sun. The carrying pole. And this tall young man in military uniform who just... quietly lifted those buckets from her shoulders. No grand declaration. No dramatic confession. Just a white handkerchief with the scent of soapberry. "His bright smile outshone the blazing summer sun." That's it. That's all the author gives us, and it completely dismantled me. Because we understand immediately—this is the life she lost. Not just the company, not just the family, but the person she could have been. The love she was forced to trade away for twenty yuan. And then the way she whispers his name? "Gu Zhiheng..." I actually had to pause and breathe. The regret, the sorrow, the tenderness—all of it compressed into three words. What's fascinating is how the author sets up the contrast between the men in her life. Zhao Mingyuan, the husband she shared forty years with, who forged her signature and stole everything. And Gu Zhiheng, who barely spoke to her but showed up with a clean handkerchief and a genuine smile. One man took everything. The other gave something small and pure that she kept for sixty-six years. I'm already obsessed with how their relationship will develop in 1970. She said she won't lose him again. I believe her.