Simple Love

Name: Simple Love
ISBN: 9787899005606

石地China Publishing Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · ChinaMay 2023

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Word count: 95K words
Chapters: 26
ISBN: 9787899005606

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Summary

Circumstances are like clouds that constantly gather and disperse. When we laugh heartily, the seeds of misfortune have already been sown in the vast farmland where all kinds of events breed; when we laugh heartily, they sprout, grow, and suddenly bear bad fruit that we must pick. I left that place, left the place that holds all my happiness. I am trying to escape all memories of him. Perhaps in my heart I am destined to wander homeless for a lifetime. It doesn't matter; I no longer need a place for my feelings to rest, my crippled feelings.

Editor's review

This is a short narrative built on emotion and memory. After happiness shatters, the narrator leaves the old place and tries to escape every memory of "him," only to find that love, like a severed limb, can no longer be placed, and must admit to being fated to a lifetime of inner displacement. The writing does not advance through plot but layers imagery and monologue: clouds that gather and scatter, farmland where disaster is sown, the bitter fruit that must be picked, tangling chance circumstance with inevitable consequence. Its value lies in rendering heartbreak and loss as a state of being rather than simple emotional release, suited to slow reading in quiet hours, letting the rhythm of sentences replace the suspense of story. Readers need not pursue an ending; better to treat it as an emotional space to enter again and again, lodging their own experience in its blanks.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Literary readers drawn to lyrical narrative and emotional description
Readers going through emotional loss who need resonance and a place to settle it
Those who enjoy the short form and can read in fragments
Writers interested in imagistic language and monologue-style writing

Not a good fit for

Readers seeking strong plot and fast-paced stories
Those hoping for a clear emotional solution from the book
Readers easily put off by a heavily sentimental tone

Reading tips

Choose a quiet time and read it through in one sitting, keeping the emotion continuous and avoiding frequent interruptions to the narrative rhythm.
Slow down where images cluster, noticing how metaphors such as clouds, farmland, and bitter fruit connect across the whole piece.
Don't rush to find a plot ending; focus on the narrator's emotional turns and self-recognition.
After reading, write a few lines of your own feelings or associations, using the text's blanks to sort through personal experience.

About the publisher

China Publishing Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. China · Founded in 2008

China Publishing Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. takes digital publishing as its main business, with titles spanning traditional medical classics and classical literature. Its catalogue includes medical works such as Treatise on Cold Damage, Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet, and The Pulse Classic, involving writings by Zhang Ji, Wang Shuhe, Lin Yi, and Zhang Jiebin. In literature, it offers Wu Jingzi's The Scholars and Xiao Hong's Tales of Hulan River, as well as foreign literary translations such as Fu Lei's rendering of Voltaire's Candide. Its publishing focus thus falls roughly into medicine, social fiction, foreign literature, and fine fiction, reflecting a balance between collated ancient texts and general reading. As public information is limited, this summary is based only on the books in the catalogue and draws no further inferences.

版权信息
第一章祝福
二分尘土一分流水
只想作只小鸟
岛之恋
永远的华尔兹
过客
第二章独自在家
夏天的痕迹
太阳雪
冷锋过境
城市猎人
一个人的远走高飞
第三章别在西藏和雄鹰接吻
远去的海
对面的窗
花逝
简单爱
随风而逝的白裙
第四章寂寞的颜色
长发三千
梵
草地•栅栏
醇香•你match到了吗?
天堂里，别再偷偷哭泣
无言的结局

FAQ

Does this book tell a complete story?

It is closer to an emotional short narrative, driven by imagery and monologue rather than a complete chain of plot. The narrator leaves the place that holds all happiness, tries to escape memories of "him," and finally admits that love is crippled and the heart is fated to displacement. Read for the flow of emotion rather than story suspense.

Is it suitable for reading when feeling low?

It depends on your state. The book's portrayal of loss and displacement is delicate and resonant, and may make readers going through emotional loss feel understood; but the tone is heavily sentimental, so if you are very fragile, choose something lighter, or read in sections and stop when needed.

Why does the language read like prose poetry?

The work uses many metaphors—clouds gathering and scattering, disaster seeds sprouting, bitter fruit being picked—and unfolds in first-person monologue, weakening plot and strengthening imagery and rhythm. This makes emotion itself the main line; readers should read slowly and notice the echoes between metaphors rather than asking after cause and effect.

It's short—is one reading enough?

The strength of the short form is exactly that it can be entered again and again. On the first reading, feel the overall emotional arc; on the second, notice how images layer up and how the narrator moves from escape to admission. Each rereading may yield new layers depending on your own circumstances.

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About the author

石地 Author · China · 1955

Shi Di, male, born in 1955, is a Chinese writer and online thinker. He moved with his family in childhood and left junior middle school in the second year; in 1978 he entered the Department of Mathematics at Beijing Normal University. After graduation he served as a middle school principal and a research institute director, among other posts. From 2005 he was director of the editorial department of Tianya Community, and later became a freelance writer. His writing covers a wide range of subjects, with 175 works in the collection spanning essays and miscellaneous writings, health, management, Eastern philosophy, literature and biography. These include commentaries on figures such as Beethoven and Einstein and on Russian poetry, practical works on medicinal diets and food therapy for common ailments and on time management for Harvard managers, and historical and philosophical essays on the Analects, the Book of the Later Han and the Lüshi Chunqiu. He is also the author of such books as Collected Essays on Building Ants and The Ignorant Youth.