Three Bays

1. Read the opening birthday banquet chapter first, remember the relationship between the two elderly people, then go back and sort out the timeline.
2. Keep a sheet of paper to record the relationships between the two generations and avoid confusion over identities in the reverse chronology.
3. After finishing each era section, pause to think about how 'resistance' and 'goodness' coexist.
4. Best read one or two chapters each evening and finished in about two weeks, maintaining the continuity of the sense of fate.

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