Xinyiwu: Originally

Chapter 1 Preface
Many people think that "To Our Dying Youth" is the first novel I wrote, but it is not.The first time I completed it was "So You Are Still Here".At that time, it can be said that I knew nothing about writing. I had no idea, outline, structure, etc. in my mind. I didn't even think that what I wrote would be published one day. I wrote this story in one go with impulse.Looking back now, although it is green and simple, it deserves to be the purest and most delicate of all my works, just like the first love when I was young, there is no impurity, no purpose, and there is only love itself.

After five years, I still miss the simple but sweet story of Li Chengzheng and Su Yunjin, the male and female protagonists in this book. I tried to revisit and make the slightly thin plot in the original book more specific and the story more beautiful , but did not want to break the original cleanliness and sincerity in the book, so this "Original" was created.It is a re-creation, but it is still the same story, and what you see is the same Cheng Zheng and Su Yunjin, but in the new interpretation, their love and hatred, separation of love and hatred, joys and sorrows will be more full and vivid.To be honest, the process of adapting is not easy, no less than creating a new book from scratch, but when the draft is finished, I feel that the time and energy put in are worth it.This kind of "worthiness" has nothing to do with commercial considerations. It is just a small satisfaction of an author, just like reliving an extremely wonderful dream and remembering the most beautiful and moving moments in it.

In fact, everyone may be Cheng Zheng or Su Yunjin, who fell in love with someone in their young years, and then tried, chased, fell in love, stayed together, quarreled, resented, alienated, separated... It's not that they don't love, but that they love each other. When we are too young, we often want to love too much but don't know how to love.On the day when he finally matures and understands, the person he loves "disappears in the sea of ​​people" as the song says.Perhaps, not everyone is as lucky as Cheng Zheng and Su Yunjin, going round and round, waiting for each other, but because the reality is not satisfactory, if a beautiful story can comfort people, believe in its existence It will make us happier, so why not give it a try?Maybe after reading it, we realize that all we need is the courage like the people in the book.

In the end, I hope that all separated lovers can find their missing other half again.

Xin, Yi Wu

Nov. 2011, 10

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