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The Most Beautiful Time

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Word count
325K words
Series
Time Trilogy
ISBN
9787540456801

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Summary

The Most Beautiful Time is an urban romance novel by Tong Hua, following her Scarlet Heart and Ballad of the Desert; it was originally titled Secrets Buried by Time. The story begins with seventeen-year-old Su Man: she has a crush on Song Yi, the boy at school who gets the best grades, has a sunny smile, and plays basketball brilliantly. His words "I'll be waiting for you at Tsinghua" stay with her for years, becoming the strength that gets her going again after every setback. She quietly follows in his footsteps, appearing wherever he appears, yet never has the courage to step up and tell him her name. Eleven years later, the two meet again by chance. Su Man is no longer the ordinary, insecure girl she was, and Song Yi is no longer the boy with the bright smile. She finally summons the courage to pursue her love boldly, unaware that another person is watching her and loving her in the same deep, silent way. Told from a woman's perspective, the novel explores secret love, waiting, and reunion, asking whether one still remembers oneself when loving someone, and it captures the purity and courage of youth—giving everything for one person without counting the cost. Threaded with chapters on distance, secrets, pride, and lies, it peels back layer after layer of the hearts of urban men and women, and readers regard it as one of Tong Hua's most beautiful and most heartbreaking works. It has been adapted into a TV series of the same name.

Editor's review

桐华以细腻笔触写了一场长达十一年的暗恋与重逢。这不是简单的“王子与灰姑娘”故事,而是一部关于自我成长的情感记录:女孩把一句无心的承诺当成灯塔,在追随中不断变得优秀,最终又要在爱情面前重新面对自己。书中人物的忐忑、骄傲、隐忍都写得真切,尤其是“凝视远方时,也有另一双眼睛在凝视你”的设定,让故事的滋味更复杂。湖南文艺版装帧精致,适合在安静的夜晚慢慢读;那些关于付出与无悔的段落,往往让人读到一半就想起自己的十七岁。

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • 喜欢桐华《步步惊心》《云中歌》等作品的读者
  • 偏爱都市言情、暗恋与重逢题材的女性读者
  • 想重温青春暗恋心境的成年读者
  • 喜欢细腻情感描写、慢节奏叙事的读者

Not a good fit for

  • 偏好快节奏悬疑、强情节冲突的读者
  • 不喜言情浪漫、情感纠葛题材的读者
  • 期待古装穿越题材的桐华读者

Reading tips

  1. 不妨把书中的“距离”“秘密”“骄傲”等篇章当成心理线索,顺着人物的心境变化来读
  2. 读到苏蔓的执拗时,可以停下来想想:喜欢一个人和自己的成长之间是什么关系
  3. 可与桐华《那些回不去的年少时光》对读,感受作者不同时期的青春书写
  4. 读完全书后再回看开篇的篮球场景,会发现不少伏笔早已埋好

About the publisher

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.

FAQ

《最美的时光》和《被时光掩埋的秘密》是同一本书吗?
是。这本书最初以《被时光掩埋的秘密》为名出版,后来以《最美的时光》为名再版,内容主体相同,新版可能增加序言等少量内容。
这本书有影视改编吗?
有。同名电视剧《最美的时光》由钟汉良、张钧甯、贾乃亮等主演,曾在湖南卫视播出,故事主干基本沿用了小说情节。
湖南文艺版 ISBN 和字数是多少?
湖南文艺出版社2012年8月版 ISBN 为 9787540456801,定价32元,约368页,字数约32.5万字。
这本书是桐华唯一的都市题材小说吗?
出版社宣传中曾以“桐华唯一都市爱情题材小说”作为卖点。它的故事背景基本在现代都市,与《步步惊心》《大漠谣》等古装作品风格不同。

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About the author

Tong Hua Author · Chinese · 1980

Tong Hua, whose real name is Ren Haiyan, was born in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, in 1980. A graduate of Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, she is a Chinese woman writer and film and television planner. In 2005, she began serializing Bu Bu Jing Xin (Scarlet Heart) and rose to fame with it. She later wrote works including Da Mo Yao, Yun Zhong Ge, Lost You Forever, and Memory of the Scattered Stars, many of which have been adapted for film and television. Her works often fall into such genres as time-travel and alternate-history fiction, ancient romance, and youth literature. She is known for weaving emotional entanglements and character growth into settings where history and fiction intertwine, with delicate storytelling that combines romance with a sense of destiny, giving her wide influence among readers.

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