Romance novels are long and short what you like
After spending a long time reading the romance novel "Cloud Steals My Memory", a strange question arose in my heart: Is it better to be long or short?
1, I think it is better to be short. After all, time is precious, especially in the current era of information explosion, it always feels like there is not enough time. Spending most of the day reading a romance novel always feels a little stupid. The author used 300,000 words, and I think 200,000 to 250,000 words would be better, and shortening 100,000 words is not a big problem. A lot of inner drama can be saved, some of the sophisticated bedding can also be less, the process of emotional accumulation can also be deleted, and the imagination space after slimming down will be larger, which is also very good.
2, or longer is better. Why, the process of emotion, the process of psychology, the changes and throbbing of the emotional world, the laying out of the characters themselves, all need to be rendered and sublimated, need to be fully expressed, reflected with more details, collided with more dialogue, and stretched with more depictions. Reading a novel is not studying exam problem solving, always wanting to pursue introspection and direct understanding, that is not a novel, nor is life itself. If you are afraid of trouble in everything and want to streamline at any time, it is also a bit extreme.
Weighing the pros and cons, I still think the author can try to launch a 200,000-word condensed version, which is more suitable for such a fast food era.
When I read a third, I guessed that between Xie Yunshang and Linnaeus, there must have been an organ transplant. Xie Yunshang has lost his memory, and the memories that are slowly recovered are related to Linnaeus, which should be a resuscitation effect of cellular memory. I didn't expect to read it to the end, not an organ transplant, but a memory transplant, which was really the first time I read it.
Love Triangle: Linnaeus and Xie Yunshang
Emotional entanglement is the eternal theme of romance novels. There's a multiple love triangle here.
The first love triangle is LinNaeus, Chi Yi, and Mo Hengshan. The three men were from the same seaside town and had attended the same middle school. This part has a young crush story, and the two heroines in the story overlap somewhat. The middle school girl sitting quietly somewhere in Mo Hengshan's memory was both Lin Nai and Xie Yunshang, and he didn't distinguish clearly at first. When he accepted Linnaeus in France and fell in love, he found that they were not really in love. At this time, Linnaeus has made a serious illness, and her memory will soon disappear, and then become a madman in the eyes of others. She was not willing and wanted to leave her own memory, so she asked her friend Chi Yi to help her do a memory transplant. It just so happens that Chi Yi has a crush on Linnaeus, so he helps her take an adventure and starts research and experiments on memory transplantation. After Lin Nai committed suicide, Xie Yunshang became a real experiment.
The second love triangle, Xie Yunshang, Chi Yi, Mo Hengshan. At this time, in Chi Yi's eyes, Xie Yunshang was Lin Nai's stand-in; in Mo Hengshan's eyes, Xie Yunshang was his true love in this life. He denied his love for Linnaeus, although Linnaeus remained in his heart. In order to help Xie Yunshang retrieve their memories, the three of them returned to the seaside town. The beacon of hope is the most healing at this time.
The truth slowly revealed, Xie Yunshang did not suffer from Linnaeus' amnesia, she just lost her memory, and it was Chi Yi who forcibly took her for medical experiments.
And Lin Nai, in fact, Xie Yunshang's compatriot Lin Qingyun, she had a miserable childhood, and escaped from her original family, choosing to wander forever. As a middle school student, in order to go abroad, in order to escape from the real situation, she used Xie Yunshang's student card to borrow usurious loans, and then ran away from home. Xie Yun carried huge debts and endless disputes, bringing his poor family into greater difficulties. The girl who broke into Mo Hengshan's memory was actually not Lin Nai, but Xie Yunshang.
Aesthetic blockbusters
LinNay is a painter, Xie Yunshang is a famous photographer, Mo Hengshan is an economist, the whole story is relatively high-end, the artistic atmosphere is very strong, the author has always placed the story in a picturesque environment to unfold, but also tried to use the feelings of the picture to render. Warm tears are the plot base, intellectual elegance is the character tone, complicated and complicated timelines, like different tributaries of memory, the story structure and emotional extension are cut just right, beautiful. The only distraction after reading it is, a bit time-consuming, 300,000 words is too long.