The seventh volume is finished.
It seems that only ten days have passed since the conclusion of Volume 6.
Don't be surprised, this volume is already very short, telling the story of Zhou Jinru's journey.
The tone of the overall content is in line with my expectations. The tens of thousands of words in this volume belong to travel notes. I originally thought that I could not control this style, but the actual situation is much better.
We all know what a travelogue is, recording what we see and hear during the journey, but the seventh volume is not just a travelogue. From the beginning to the end, it follows a main line. Zhou Jinru is looking for a way back. At the same time, it is also the whole volume. Hidden line, go home.
go home.
This is a beautiful word for everyone. The difficult thing is that you have a home and cannot go back, and you have no home to go back to.
On the surface, it starts from Zhou Jinru meeting Abu, entering Pingpan, then meeting Xu Yu, dreaming in wonderland, getting to know Beeswax, and finally encountering thorns and embarking on the road home.
But there are only two words in the core, go home.
Abu brought letters and objects from the big city back to Pingpan. He was going home, the letter was going home, and the objects were also going home;
Xu Yu was guided by vague memories and returned to Pingpan. She was looking for home, but Oia No. 4, that is, home, was gone. Finally, she found Zhou Jinru and returned home.
Alice gave the key according to the agreement she made back then. She fulfilled an agreement and sent something home.
Beeswax, on the other hand, left home and embarked on a journey to find her sister, staying in the first half of the journey.
Finally, there is Thorny. He is on vacation, but for him, vacation and work are basically indistinguishable. After getting the signed CD of the band Escape Sunset, he and Zhou Jinru set foot on the road home.
What is going home? A place where people can feel stable and a harbor that can resist all storms.
As the plot unfolds, there is basically no description of what Zhou Jinru sees, while Xu Yu, Alice and Beeswax have more perspectives, because Zhou Jinru just wants to go home, his journey has long ended, and the rest is Suffering, but the journey of the three girls behind is not over yet, they still have the energy to observe and appreciate.
Finally, there is Ector Henry. This character only lives on paper. All images are through other people's oral narrations, written descriptions, and the traces he left.
In Xu Yu's eyes, he is a child who has been brought up since childhood; in Marcus's eyes, he is an old man with a weird temper; in the eyes of his adopted children, he is a stubborn old man; in the self-reported In the letter, he is a left-behind person waiting for his family to come back.
He failed to wait for the person he was waiting for, but in the end, he still waited for the person he wanted.
So when I was writing this paragraph, the emotions of the whole story kept going downwards. When Xu Yu stood in front of the tombstone and cried, all the accumulated emotions exploded, but from the creator's point of view, a low ending was not suitable. We, so we have the following scene.
Henry's thoughts and ideas were passed down, a new photo replaced the old photo, and the child he adopted inherited his career and continued it. At this time, the tone of the story began to rise, and Xu Yu's mood recovered. Yes, her smile shows that the scars in her heart have been healed.
The journey begins before it begins and ends before it ends.
The story ends here, just right.
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This volume is relatively plain, with no ups and downs of the plot, no cunning and cunning characters, just some people living on the land of Terra, which is also the norm in the civilized world.
To be honest, I'm very satisfied.
Then we're going to start the next volume.
Here’s a little more light-hearted drama.
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Volume 8, New Xista.
Sun, beach, waves, resort, is there anything more exciting than a swimsuit party?
