The title of Miao Wei's new book, "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories", is a novel that is very densely arranged with love and hate.
The word dense shows that Miao Wei put forward higher requirements for his own creation after publishing several novel collections such as "Unless the Soul Claps Its Hands and Sings", "Flying in the Night", and "Bread Will Be". The story of love and hate, as long as it is written sincerely, even if it advances the plot in a single line, it is still intimidating. The chief writer of "Sanlian Life Weekly", Miao Wei can not write an emotional story? He can complete "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" in a dot-and-dot method.
Probably Miao Wei feels that the face brought out by a little is not stable in the end, which is likely to hurt the novel's sense of luxury, so we can read at least two stories from this novel that the author's love that is called "smoke" and "chocolate" has passed with the years, and therefore, Miao Wei's new work has a seemingly random name: the three key elements in the novel such as smoke, chocolate, and sad stories are laid out.
Novelists generally give their works a title that is either elegant or full of mysteries, such as the title of Miao Wei's second novel collection "Night Flight", and the latter is like the title of Miao Wei's first novel collection, "Unless the Soul Claps Its Hands and Makes Songs". Still a fairly mature writer, how did Miao Wei give his new work such a name?
Read the whole novel and solve the above problems. But for readers who have not been able to read the end of the novel, why they give their new work such a name becomes the suspense that Miao Wei left to the reader. The question is, once Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories are opened, is it possible to give up halfway? Sad stories, the bridges and means to promote the plot are so fashionable, I think, as long as we start to read the first page, we can only read "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" without stopping.
Readers who followEd Miao Wei through the journey of "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" also read the most essential chapter of this novel, which appears in the third chapter of the novel, "Sad Story", in verse 23, when Liu Di and Tang Juan were divorced.
After reading a novel, it seems unnecessary to outline the plot. However, if you do not explain how a strange man and woman know each other, love each other to the point that they must be together forever through marriage, and how they are so disgusted with each other that they must end up with divorce, the identification of the so-called essence chapter has become my dream alone.
Radio music host Liu Di fell in love with Tang Juan at an event held at a café, when Tang Juan made a living as a screenwriter in a large courtyard near Beijing's Drum Tower. Liu Di and Tang Juan in love lived in the small room full of fashion symbols in the Drum Tower Tang Juan for half a year, and in that half year, the drama exhibition concert filled their lives and filled their feelings, and the two people invariably decided to strengthen their emotional life, so they decorated a ninety-square-meter house in Wangjing, and the set of love nests was dotted with the world's top consumer goods. Although Liu Di still goes to the radio station every day to host evening music programs, although Tang Juan is still accustomed to telling her husband the good stories that appear in her mind when the aura first appears in her mind and then slowly incorporating them into the script she created, "(Tang Juan) has a dark complexion, dark circles are aggravated, lips are not bloody, hair is yellow, hair loss is serious, and appetite is not good", and Liu Di's physical condition is also deteriorating, so the two decided to quit smoking.
The sad story that happened between Liu Di and Tang Juan, why it is called "smoke", is already clear. However, in Miao Wei's intention, the story between Liu Di and Tang Juan, who is referred to as "tobacco", is from the moment of quitting smoking, from sweetness to sadness.
When the post-90s generation gradually becomes the main force of marriage in this society, even if the appeal of not marrying is very popular in this group, falling in love with a person and marrying and having children with it, it is still their theme song, so how can Liu Di and Tang Juan, who love each other, divorce because of smoking cessation? And Miao Wei, in order to strengthen the reasons for the love and hate of this generation he discussed through "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories", introduced the story of love and sadness that was influenced by chocolate: Liu Di's classmate Tony achieved financial freedom in the wind and clouds, and he was proud of his love. Yang Xiaoshi, who is also a winner in life, in order to chase a higher standard wealth realm, deliberately follows Ding Toby... A love story permeated with chocolate sweetness, ending in a frightening personal injury. Gentle as Liu Di and Tang Juan, fierce like Tony and Yang Xiaoshi, their love ending is broken, this is no need to repeat, Miao Wei wants to explore, the period painted after the broken, can only be a "hate" word?
The Colorful Movement, which appears in Chapter 3, Verse 23 of Smoke and Chocolate and Sadness, allows us to read about Miao Wei's kindness in the face of unsatisfactory surroundings.
"He's really a good guy, not that he's a good husband, he's a rare good guy. You see now people always overestimate their own value, feel that they are talented, feel that good things should belong to themselves, feel that they should get more, and are indignant if they don't get it. He was different, he envied the good fortune of others, but decided that he would not have any good luck. He's not greedy, and he doesn't sleep badly because he wants too much... You look at us, in an era of lack of patience and introspection, how rare it is to have such a romantic person... We compete darkly, he suffers from gain and loss, he listens to music, reads books, immerses himself in his own world, is he afraid of losing his house? No, he was afraid of losing Wen Cun, and that little Bit of Wen Cun encouraged him, and probably not many people would be willing to sleep with a middle-aged loser in the future, which was what he was most worried about... The loss of an ability to pleasure was his most painful thing, more serious than the loss of a house. ”
He in the quotation is Liu Di. This evaluation of Liu Di does not come from the author's description, but from the dialogue between Tang Juan and her girlfriend. At that time, Tang Juan had divorced Liu Di.
The reason why Tang Juan's evaluation of her ex-husband is the brilliance of the whole novel is at least twofold. First, after the couple became a resentful couple, for who is not for the property for the child in the end who to raise and so on, has become the current social norm, Miao Wei with Tang Juan's discussion of her ex-husband, giving a sample of couples who have to break up can also break up in good faith. Second, it is also the Huacai in the Huacai chapter, which gives a positive and positive evaluation to a frustrated person like Liu Di through Tang Juan.
Compared with his classmate Tony, how much failure did Liu Di have? Not to mention the financial freedom, after the divorce gave Tang Juan the marriage house that Tang Juan had a down payment, he could only go to the suburbs to seek a place to live; because of the difference in ideas with the supervisor, Liu Di lost the evening music program, followed by a big loss of income; it is speculated that the defeated Liu Di may be sloppy and lonely in the post-"Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" period.
Liu Di, who has been defeated and retreated, has predicted the end of his life, but Tang Juan, who knows Liu Di best, refuses to press the word loser on her ex-husband's head. Tang Juan's reason is that Liu Di can correctly evaluate himself, Liu Di never complains about the world, Liu Di desires moderate, and Liu Di's greatest hope for his surroundings is to be treated kindly and warmly.
At a time when almost everyone believes that Tony is the winner, Miao Wei gave the most senior comment I thought I could give to a man to the almost undisputed loser Liu Di. Readers who understand Miao Wei's "Smoke and Chocolate and Sad Stories" are surprised and their hearts are warm.
Unfortunately, positive characters like Liu Di, who are rarely seen in literary works like Liu Di, are commented on by Tang Juan, a character in the works. If the novel can complete the shaping of "this one" Liu Di in the process of plot advancement, how perfect it should be.