Opiate of Love
Mian Mian's novel Candy, takes a deeper look into China's economic upbringing to the modern world. The book is entirely narrated by Hong a fictitious character who levels with the exploding populous of drugs, prostitution, and new-age music through her early adult years. She meets a young musician named Saining who both fall hopelessly in love for each other. The binding relationship of Saining and Hong did not go un-aided, as the social repercussion of heroin and alcohol soon found its way into controlling their lives and eventually their future as a couple. When Saining found an entry to escape the world with heroin, he would inevitably leave Hong out. Consequently, if either of them was in absence of any substance, they fell out of each other's "wavelength". In turn, both would sequentially drop in and out of each other's wavelength that proved fatal to their relationship. To maintain order of this relationship, indulgence of alcohol and heroin was their only......
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