Shayanara, Preface to the Works of Love

What is a city? The city in my eyes is probably countless reinforced concrete, artificially synthesized into many cute, weird, or majestic high-rise buildings, standing in the sky. around people.

So roads were built around high-rise buildings, and men and women wore their favorite clothes and shuttled between the buildings.

Forests and lakes are miracles of nature, then cities are miracles of mankind.

In such a human miracle, the love between him and her will be born, which is even more of a miracle among miracles.

After performing "Night Games", like the suspicious prime bachelor Calvin in the play, I lost something and gained something - oh, Calvin lost his colleagues and friends. What I gained from my friends’ trust was my reflection on life from now on; what I lost was the sleep time spent memorizing those long lines, and what I gained was the encouragement from the entire crew and all the audiences who supported us.

At that time, I was thinking, watching Jakcy and Vivian meet in the elevator in the drama and eventually become happy enemies - how wonderful love happens in the city! It should have been living in the world. Two people, but they have an invisible bond because they came to the same city. Although I don't believe in fate, I absolutely believe in all the possibilities created by love.

Over the years, I have sang the songs I like, acted the plays I like, and walked the path I like - in fact, there is no need to be surrounded by applause and flowers. The source of happiness is If you move forward firmly towards your goal, even a pebble on the roadside will reveal its unique light because of its roundness. This book "Shayanara Love" may be just a pebble on the little wolf's road, but I believe its light will be a flawless diamond in the eyes of everyone who loves life, admires the city, and believes in love. On the Midsummer Night The path back was dimly lit in the sky.

From Tokyo to Beijing, from Beijing to Taipei, the sincere and wonderful love that happened in three cities gave me reason to believe that this guy with wolf as his habit and name is also a lover of love. People who live, admire the city and believe in love.

Next, I will also sing good songs, act in good plays, take fun roads, and head to the next city.

You come too! Who is Shiva? Of course not an old woman who washes her feet and gets splashed water all over her body, and her hair is combed into a bun on the back of her head.

If it had to be explained in this way, this would probably be a negative example of a cold joke that could be classified as "just meaningless".

He is the greatest god in Indian mythology, and is known as the three main gods together with Brahma and Vishnu.

If you want to compare, it should be like Tathagata Buddha, Jade Emperor, Taishang Laojun. To the Chinese, these people sound very amazing.

What I have always wondered is why the three religions of "Confucianism", "Taoism" and "Buddhism" that have always been respected side by side in ancient China, after those celebrities who were very powerful in life died and became immortals, Do Confucian gods always have a lower status than Taoists and Buddhists? It seems that in ancient times, scholars and book writers were not so highly regarded.

Fortunately, I was not born in ancient times.

Continue talking about Shiva.

It is said that Shiva can perform one hundred and eight dances, just like Michael Jackson. But I don’t know if Shiva ever had his nose padded or his chin reshaped, but I know he had a wife who loved him very much and even committed suicide for him.

So Shiva should not be particularly interested in children, I think.

There is also a legend that Shiva likes to dance in times of joy and sorrow, either alone or with his wife Devi, because he is the god of rhythm. The dance symbolizes both the glory of Shiva and the eternal movement of the universe.

So in Hindu statues, Shiva is always depicted dancing independently with one foot, and the other foot is bent and suspended in mid-air. Because he is the God of the universe, his feet that are still in mid-air cannot be put down.

Once you let go, time in the entire universe stops.

This seems to have nothing to do with the book "Shayanara, Love".

However, while writing this book, I wanted to go to India several times to pay homage to the statue of Shiva, hoping that he could put his feet down, even if it was only for a moment. .

For humans, a moment of God should be longer than a week or a month.

Unfortunately, the book I wrote and the boys and girls in it have nothing to do with India. They flew from Taipei to Tokyo, then from Tokyo to Beijing, and finally from Beijing to Taipei, as if they didn’t need to spend money to buy air tickets. They lived a casual life that surprised even me as the author. .

Every time I finish writing a book, someone will ask me which character in your book is your favorite.

This seems to be something that every author must experience. Mr. Jin Yong seems to have answered that men like Wei Xiaobao, women like Cheng Lingsu and other similar answers.

My favorite character in "Please Take Care of Me" is A'Zhu, because it is the prototype of a good friend of mine.

My favorite in "Love Game" is Xiao Ming, because that is the prototype of my college friend.

I will never answer the much-anticipated "official" answer that I like the first heroine Linghu Nunu or the second heroine Lin Peijin.

Because I can only like the most real character in my novel, and the heroine in my novel will be more or less a composite of many girls. I don’t know how I should like her. Characteristics that originally belonged to someone.

So, when someone asks me again this time which character in "Shayanara Love" I like, I have already prepared the answer and can tell you without hesitation: " What I like the most is the slipper that Yang Tianer threw out when she first met Guang Shicheng!" In fact, this time in "Sayang Nala, Love", there are already many familiar things in it for the first time. The images of people like Yang Tianer, Guang Shicheng, and Mei Yankang are all characters who really exist around me.

So when I went out drinking on the weekends, I would show a certain dialogue of A Kang’s character to the real A Kang. He would use a unique Taiwanese tone, point his nose up and yell at me: "You, you, you, how can you record everything I usually say!" So, when you, look at this book of mine When I was reading the novel, I had actually completely seen every move of the people in the novel in reality.

It’s just that it took me too much energy to record their words and deeds. I did this just to make the characters I wrote more real and vivid than in previous books, but when I actually put it into practice, I found that it is very tiring and hard to work hard to copy a person's daily words and deeds. matter.

I feel a little pity for the person who wrote "The Analects". He not only wanted to record the words and deeds of Confucius, but also the words and deeds of Confucius's disciples and the disciples of these disciples.

No wonder, "The Analects of Confucius" is more beautiful than "Shayanala, Love", after all, people record it more carefully! It is for this point, which is called "collecting materials" to put it nicely, that I I especially hope Shiva can put his foot down so that I can have more time to rest and play video games.

Maybe I really should go to India, just like a certain writer on vacation, and I can tell the editor of the publishing house in a high-sounding way that I went to collect stories.

Generally, the author’s collection of stories is actually just an excuse for us to take a break because our brain cells are tired.

Taipei and Tokyo are both cities with their own characteristics.

I have lived in Beijing for a long time, and I can’t help but miss the goodness of these two cities.

The impression they left on me is different: Tokyo is full of popular shadows. If you don’t walk faster, you will be abandoned by the times. In Taipei, whether you open your eyes or close your eyes, there are delicious food everywhere.

So if I lose the ability to describe with words, I will use drawing to describe the scenes of these two cities - one is full of cherry blossoms, with PS2 game discs on the branches. and LV cherry buns; another vendor's cart is piled up in the streets and alleys. I want to drink Ai Yubing and the delicious King of Spare Ribs, so much that I can't finish them all. Oh, and the duck meat dumpling, which specializes in goose meat, is also a must-try.

But then again, if I stay in Tokyo and Taipei for a long time, I will miss Beijing’s Douzhi and Tiananmen Bar.

No matter what, the book was finally finished successfully.

I have long been notorious for "never being able to finish a story". Now I can openly pick up the PSP in front of the editor of the publishing house while he is busy proofreading. , playing my new game very calmly.

I am not a bad person, who made him rush to me and chew roasted lamb kidneys when I was conceiving the plot! I also hope that this finally complete story can satisfy readers who have supported me for a long time. Friends were relieved. Over the years, I want to thank you for your unreserved encouragement, from one magazine to another, just to read more. Sometimes I feel like bullshit.

Of course, I would also like to thank my editor Li Ford - Senior Dongxi, who fully supported me in writing this book! You are the most supportive of me! In addition, I would also like to express my special thanks to Sister Longwang who gave me great support. .

Sister Dragon King, I really admire your musical talent, but your enthusiasm for staying up in the middle of the night and catching me auditioning really makes me despise you, and when you bought a mobile phone The "perseverance" that took me half a year to make up my mind made me extremely ashamed.

I still remember that when I was finishing the manuscript, I talked with an editor of "Xinwei" about post-80s literature.

I talk about the literature born in the 1980s. Many young authors like to show people pain. What they write should be called "pain literature."

They may not have experienced these pains personally, but each one is so realistic that you feel like they have all gone through the pain.

I am also a writer born after the 1980s. Unfortunately, I cannot feel pain at all.

Is it true that my life is too comfortable? I reflected with shame.

The editor smiled and said to me: That’s fine. Unlike pain literature, your words are full of warm feelings.

So, should I be "healing literature"? Or, it's not even "healing". I'm just a "band-aid literature" at best! In any case, if my words are really If I can make you forget for a moment the pain caused by setbacks in life, then I can feel at ease and describe happiness and explain happiness more unscrupulously in the next book.

As I said at the beginning, if Shiva puts down his other foot, time will stop.

How many times have we sincerely hoped that time would really stop! For example, three days before the college entrance examination, we found that we still had a lot of books to review; for example, the plane was about to take off, but I had diarrhea for a long time and still had diarrhea. It's not good; for example, if you meet someone you like and walk across the road with them, but you see that you are about to reach her door... I don't know whether Shiva's feet have ever been put down.

But I have been thinking: just for the normal operation of the universe, he has maintained the independent shape of the golden rooster for hundreds of millions of years - he, isn't he tired? After watching "Shayanala Love", You shouldn't feel tired, right?