One day in the early winter of 2009, I came to Yangshuo in the drizzle, stayed in a farm hotel in Dahebei Village, and started writing a novel. Not to mention the beauty of the mountains and rivers here, but also the people, I regard this place as my home.This is a small village by the Li River, with orchards, rivers, mountains, cocks crowing in the middle of the night... For many years, I have been writing outside, and I regard many places as my home. It can be said that I am a person who lives everywhere.Since the day I left my hometown, I have embarked on a long road of no return. This winter was suddenly cold. I was wearing short-sleeved clothes the day before, and it became surprisingly cold overnight.The bone-piercing cold was accompanied by pain, coming in the cold wind.

There are two kinds of pain. One is mental pain.Because this book is the story of two abandoned women, their sorrow, their fear, their pain, their unforgettable love and self-seeking path to redemption... torturing my fragile heart.Many times, when I open the window and look at the fairyland-like mountains and rivers in the distance, a sad song will sound in my heart, as if the mountains and rivers are my fictional scenes, and the cruel fate of the protagonist in the novel has painted my heart grey.It is obviously inappropriate to write a painful novel in this beautiful place.However, before I finish writing this book, I will not leave easily.

Another kind of pain comes from my body.Perhaps God wants to make my body and soul ache together, so that I can write more profoundly about human suffering, struggle, and helplessness. Therefore, on the third day after staying in this farmhouse hotel, I fell and injured myself.At first I didn't think so, because I just sprained my ankle, and there was only a small wound. According to my experience, there shouldn't be any major problems, and it will heal naturally in a few days.But I never expected that within a few days, my whole leg would suddenly swell up, and I couldn't even walk.In this way, I didn't go downstairs for more than 20 days, and the medicine and food were brought up by the people in the hotel.That day, Xingping Town, opposite Dahe, was attending a temple fair. The cleaning lady told me that the town was crowded with people and it was very lively.I said why I heard the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers. It turned out to be like this. Unfortunately, I can't walk out to see it yet.My aunt took pity on me for not going out for a walk in more than 10 days, and gave me several big grapefruits to eat, and said that someone would carry me to her house for dinner, and accepted her grapefruit, but declined to go to her house for dinner, I am afraid that seeing so many delicious things, I can't help eating and drinking, which is not good for the injury.In order to make my wounded leg heal sooner, I can only eat light food every day.Pain wakes me up and makes my mind fly.I wrote this book day and night, hoping to transcend pain, hopeless life and cruel love, and find liberation and peace in my heart.

This is indeed a painful novel.Regarding novels, I have been exploring. I am not influenced by anyone, and I insist on writing what I like to write. I don’t want others to tell me how to write novels, or what is a good novel. I have my own writing standards.I am a person who is always traveling at night, a lonely person.When I finish writing the last word, I feel that I have completed a journey of life, and other things have nothing to do with me. It hurts to write.I have always hoped to tell people the truth about life, but time and time again, life goes from one kind of sadness to another.In a sense, I am a pessimist. I will be afraid of many sudden disasters, and at the same time I will suddenly reject sincere love. No matter how dark it is, I hope that love can save the suffering soul.

Will it hurt the reader to read it? If so, I hope dear readers can also let their thoughts fly through the pain.If not, this is also a very good-looking novel, which will give people a certain pleasure of reading, but in fact, this is enough.