blabla100:
Honestly if I was a Jinger I would have been even more unsatisfied with how the story unfolded, that doubt would have been at the back of my mind no matter what. She loves him, she loves him not... At least regarding XL the bugs do stand as a testimony.
If I started out liking Jing because I believed that he was the perfect, wonderful man like his moniker Qing Qiu Gentleman made him out to be, I would be pissed that Tong Hua had deceived me. The way she gradually flipped his image onto its head throughout the novel was brutal. By the end of the novel, he was thoroughly emasculated and undignified. To add insult to injury, Xiao Yao's constant back-and-forth with him doesn't exactly scream deep, passionate love either. In fact, it seems Xiao Yao's commitment to their relationship typically coincides with some kind of rejection from Xiang Liu.
The way Jing's glowing reputation doesn't match up to his less-than-glowing actions vs. Xiang Liu's honourable righteousness beneath the "demonic" reputation is a bit like the real vs. unreal theme that was mentioned in conjunction with Dream of The Red Chamber.
windiaaa041293:
6. The story of Qingshui town is like a summary of the entire novel, similar to the story of Zhen Shi Yin's family in Dream of the Red Chamber.
Curious... Can the summary of the story from Dream of the Red Chamber be seen from the story of Zhen Shi Yin's family in Dream of the Red Chamber?
So what's are people thoughts on this? How is the early story in Qingshui Town a foreshadowing of the entire novel?
I thought maybe it's about how by the end of the novel, Xiao Yao and Jing have reverted back to their dynamic of Wen Xiao Liu and 17 at the beginning of the novel; with him being entirely dependent on her.
The other one is that Tian Er's story is a foreshadowing of how the other characters also ended up betting that they'll get a good enough life if they compromise and try hard enough to make things work.