A widower's entertainment

Chapter 252 [Crazy Violence] (Subscribe)
Beijing, Yenching University.

In 1988, at Yenching University, or Yanyuan, where young literary people gathered, it was obvious that they had always loved literature, liked to talk about literature, ideals, and love. Even when the s came and literature gradually faded, Yanyuan was still a place where people loved literature.

It is obvious that the students here have always liked Lin Youcheng's works. Whether it is "The Devotion of Suspect X" from a long time ago or "The Time Traveler's Wife" not long ago, there have been heated discussions about each one.

No one expected that after "The Time Traveler's Wife", Lin Youcheng would bring "The Unforgettable Lovers".

The love in this story really moved all the Yanyuan students and they were deeply involved in it.

They didn't expect that Lin Youcheng would bring such a simple and strange love. Although it had a sci-fi atmosphere, it was extremely real. Two people from different time and space, with inextricable loneliness and solitude, communicated through letters and fell in love with each other. This was really romantic.

The him of the past falls in love with her of the future!
What a thrilling setting!
Every bit of the story fascinates the readers, because such a graphic story is so real.

The key point is that in addition to touching love, this novel also tells too many moving details. Every detail is so delicate and touching, making people immersed in it.

Reading the words in "Unreachable Lovers", I felt so sad that I couldn't speak. Maybe people are always like this. When facing the person they really like, they are unwilling to express their feelings.

Everything happened so suddenly. It seemed calm and uneventful, but Lin Youcheng's words seemed to have life, with soft, dim and unclear colors, and the sea and clouds flowing as he pleased.

Even if the conversation is sparse, the emotions are gentle and not intense, the happiness is vague, and the sadness is vague,
Looking at it all the way, it is a very natural and peaceful life, just like reading and reciting poetry, being fascinated by those light and forbearing expressions, those unique magical silences, which make people intoxicated.

Why aren't you by my side when I need you the most?

There are three things that people cannot hide: cough, poverty and love. The more you hide them, the more obvious they become.

I have never admitted that I love you. I can't forget you. But I will never see you again.

When the girl in 1990 saw the boy who existed only in 1988 rushing over from the road to stop her from breaking up with her boyfriend, she suddenly realized that it was her love. But a car accident happened, and it turned out to be a car accident related to her. She just realized the existence of love, but she didn't know that he had disappeared.

The ending was too unexpected, no one knew how the story would end, but it stirred up huge waves in the hearts of countless readers.

That’s right, not ripples, but rolling waves.

How could such a unique love story through letters not drive those young people who love literature crazy?

It can be said that not only young people, but even older readers were fascinated by Lin Youcheng's "The Unreachable Lover" and praised it highly.

Overnight, literally overnight, the literary community was discussing Lin Youcheng's "The Unreachable Lover".

Not to mention those literary critics who were amazed, even if they wanted to find fault, they were just like some editors of the People's Literature magazine who thought that the novels written by Lin Youcheng were decadent, not in line with the standards of serious literature, and not realistic and critical enough. But how can love be serious?
They thought that the love stories written by Lin Youcheng before had already fully captured the purity of love, especially after the science fiction love story "The Time Traveler's Wife", but they didn't expect that there was another work like "The Unreachable Lovers" waiting for them.

Literary critics were really surprised and amazed by Lin Youcheng's realistic yet fantastic, plain yet extreme "The Unreachable Lovers", because this story truly touches people's hearts with its pure story.

The review written by female literary critic Feng Xue in Literary Gazette praised Lin Youcheng's "The Untouchable Lover". The review wrote: "It is really hard to imagine that after the touching and thrilling "The Time Traveler's Wife", Lin Youcheng would bring us such a touching love story. Although the story is science fiction, it is so real. The whole novel has the appearance of "Love Letter", which still has a touch of sadness. It is also like "Wonderful Things in the World" but full of romantic poetry. After reading "The Untouchable Lover" for the first time, I was shocked. It turns out that it can be like this? We have all had days of tossing and turning, anxiously waiting for letters from afar, expectant eyes, unsuccessful melancholy, surprises and expectations of waiting. Time is spent in such alternating waiting, and the leaves turn green and yellow, and then yellow and green. But who has ever thought that distance is never a problem, whether it is space or time..."

Soon after, Beihe Literature reprinted Lin Youcheng's "The Untouchable Lover" and published a review article, "Because of the intersection and absence of time and space, everything is full of fantastic imagination, but everywhere is familiar mood and dialogue, the plot is real and moving, true love can transcend time and distance, love can fight against emptiness and loneliness, as long as the hearts are connected, time and space will eventually intersect. Please believe in fate. This is also the sentiment that "The Untouchable Lover" wants to express..."

There is a review article by a literary critic in the Literary Theory Newspaper, which says: "The text and imagination of Lin Youcheng's novel "The Untouchable Lover" are quite dazzling and amazing. Lin Youcheng uses a science fiction perspective to guide the plot of the entire novel, but makes this extraordinary thing so ordinary and real. There is no need for a thousand years of romance, it's just that he in 1988 met her in 1990. In our short life, two years may be short, but it is enough to change everything. In this long and tiny time difference, they exchanged bits of thoughts and formed an indissoluble bond..."

There is also a review article by a literary critic in the magazine "Young Critics" praising this as another science fiction realist story with a fantasy color after "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Lin Youcheng, saying: "In Lin Youcheng's writing, the vast background of the ocean gives this story a unique charm. Lin Youcheng can grasp the most common myth in people's hearts and then develop it into a whole story with a lingering fragrance. Going back to the past or fast-forwarding to the future to have a fateful love affair with a confused stranger is a mythical fantasy in time. It is always a passing by, and then the story begins, but no one can avoid being sucked into the unpredictable ending, just as everyone still has an expectation for life and a yearning for love in their hearts..."

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In addition, "Literary Review" published a long review article by critic Zhang Hui on "The Unreachable Lover", which caused heated discussion.

The article made no secret of its appreciation and praise for Lin Youcheng's love novel. The comment read: "I was previously amazed by Lin Youcheng's novel The Time Traveler's Wife and thought that the most touching love in the world might be this kind of intertwined love. But I didn't expect that this time, Lin Youcheng's novel The Untouchable Lover would collide with different sparks about the intertwining of time. The flash of sparks often happens in an instant, and the beautiful scenery of memories requires time to flash back. No matter you are two years later or I was two years ago. The distance of two years makes us feel very close, but we are always out of reach and out of reach."

"This reminds me of Gu Cheng's poem "Far and Near". You look at the clouds for a while, and then look at me. I feel that you are very far away when you look at me, and very close when you look at the clouds. Obviously, Lin Youcheng's novel is just like this poem, seemingly ordinary, but intriguing. Using "time distance" to explain the different feelings in visual changes is full of philosophical thinking, a kind of thinking about people. In addition to the hazy beauty, it is an endless space for reverie. In particular, Lin Youcheng's treatment of the art of leaving blank space at the end of the novel just right gives the story a deeper meaning, making the whole story full of stronger vitality..."

Such a comment undoubtedly resonated with many readers, as this was also what they thought in their hearts, but they naturally had different opinions on the artistic treatment of the blank space at the ending.

Not to mention the author Lin Youcheng's fame in the domestic literary world. Even if this "Unreachable Lovers" was written by a new author, it would still be quite amazing because the conception is so ingenious and unique. Now that Lin Youcheng has brought such a stunning "Unreachable Lovers", how could the literary world not be enthusiastic about it.

It can be said that following the publication of this issue of People's Literature magazine, many newspapers and periodicals followed suit and published corresponding commentary articles, discussing and evaluating Lin Youcheng's new romance novel "The Unreachable Lovers", which was very popular.

In the eyes of readers, conveying ideas through handwritten letters is such a simple form of communication.

Paper, pen, envelope, mailbox. A primitive and beautiful process, and they don't even need stamps, magically traveling through time and space, this can only be a story.

It seems unreal, but it is real. Writing a letter to your future self, the words here and now, and looking back at them at that time and place in the future, isn't it like traveling through time and space? Even if there are no other readers, at least you can share the soul-touching experience with your future self. Or it is not just the sentimental young female literary people and critics who are chasing after Lin Youcheng's "The Untouchable Lover". Many literary newspapers and magazines are reprinting and publishing related commentary articles.

These discussions about "The Unreachable Lovers" began to spread throughout the literary circle.

This is all because this novel is quite novel and amazing.

Young literary people in the literary circle are all amazed by Lin Youcheng's "The Unreachable Lover". Similarly, many big names in the literary circle are also paying attention to Lin Youcheng's latest love novel.

It seems that all around the literary youth are themes revolving around "Unreachable Lovers", and there are constant discussions and exchanges about the ending of the story.

Such imaginative and true love is fascinating in itself, but now it has such an abrupt ending, how can it not drive everyone crazy.

Really just crazy!

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"Why didn't Lin Youcheng explain the final outcome? After Lin Yin sent that letter, did she win Zhou Xian back?"

"Yeah! Why don't you just give the final answer?"

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"I couldn't help but write to Lin Youcheng, just to ask him about the final outcome!"

"Me too. I also wrote a letter to Lin Youcheng. His ending was really too much. I couldn't sleep the whole time. I kept thinking about Zhou Xian's death. I wanted to know if Lin Yin's letter stopped Zhou Xian."

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"I feel very sad and really want to know the ending. Why did Lin Youcheng leave the ending uncertain? This is really heartbreaking!"

"That's right, Lin Youcheng's ending is really uncomfortable. It's completely different from Lin Youcheng's previous work, Under the Hawthorn Tree. Although the third brother died, that was a clear answer, but now it's unknown whether Zhou Xian is dead or not. Lin Youcheng is keeping us hanging like this, it's really a bit too much!"

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"The novel is really touching, but I am not satisfied with the ending. I must ask Lin Youcheng!"

"Is this the address of People's Literature? Do you also have the address of the author Lin Youcheng? I want to write to Lin Youcheng directly and ask him why he gave such an ending!"

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"The ending is too sad and full of uncertainty. I also want to write a letter, but not to Lin Youcheng, but to my lover two years later."

"I also want to write to someone two years from now, but I don't know how to write to them two years from now. I can only write to Lin Youcheng and ask him to tell me whether Lin Yin and Zhou Xian finally met and were together."

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"Comrade Lin Youcheng, if you cannot win back Zhou Xian, please give us a clear answer, otherwise our readers will be left hanging."

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"I remembered the letter I wrote to heaven when I read Love Letter. Now I want to write a letter to be sent two years from now."

“Why not send it two years ago?”

"..."

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In such a poetic 1980s, writing and mailing letters was a very common thing.

But now, because of Lin Youcheng's "The Untouchable Lover", letters have become unusual again. It can be said that at one time, many readers wrote to Lin Youcheng, wanting to know the final outcome, and of course, most of the addresses they sent were "People's Literature".

The readers were actually quite upset because they really wanted to know whether Lin Yin and Zhou Xian were together in the novel.

But now, the ending of the novel puts everything into question?
How can this be accepted by the readers?
They were simply unable to accept it, and were unable to calm down. They wished they could run directly to Lin Youcheng's house, grab him by the collar, and force him to tell them the true ending of the story.

(End of this chapter)