I am not Ximen Qing.

The world has now entered the era of "A Tale of Two Cities," and we can't help but admire the immense love hidden within Dickens's story. Perhaps the British and French are best at showcasing the spirit of universal love. London and Paris are no longer the dominant metropolises; Beijing is now the most prestigious, the fashion capital. Beijing's greatness lies not in its own existence, but in its ability to make all cities reflect its spirit.

Constantly transforming into another large and fashionable metropolis, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen—first-tier, second-tier, third-tier, fourth-tier, fifth-tier, and sixth-tier cities—can now easily become tales of two cities, multi-tiered and unprecedented in their transportation revolution. It seems only a great country like China could stage such a revolution of time travel. High-speed rail, subways, airplanes, and even the nostalgic green trains—you can't imagine how suitable China is for experiencing a wormhole-like time tunnel journey. Distances are no longer so far; wherever you are, in China, it's all within a line. The vitality of the city is hidden during the day; this is the mystery of the metropolis. Without beauty, everything seems so bland, filled with dull colors, devoid of life, not a trace of vitality. Where has the surging love and youthful energy of romance gone? This is the real key point: the inability to depict city life, the motivation and vitality of life, with the colors of love and passion is truly disappointing. The city is endless, with endless lines of cars, cars slowly crawling through the city, the space for oranges growing ever narrower, filled with buildings, skyscrapers, and all sorts of fashionable... Modern Sky's entire space and time is filled with cars on roads, pedestrian walkways with crowds, department stores with congestion, and underground time tunnels with subways—a sky within a sky. The entire colorful world of mountains, earth, and ocean is filled with garbage, a colorful human construct occupying the Pacific Ocean. Distorted art is distorted by creativity.

Life needs to blossom, life needs to be awakened, life needs to breathe fresh air. Where has life gone, this dreaded daytime, this oppressive, suffocating daylight? Lifeless, devoid of love and passion, devoid of youthful energy, devoid of vibrant energy. Only ugly middle-aged women and men remain—they were once young, they were once youthful. The blue sky feels like summer; it's a strange season, spring turning to summer without transition. Beijing is like that. There's no clear boundary between spring and summer; you experience spring and summer little by little. The experience of spring's essence is gone, leaving only the oppressive heat and sticky sweat. A tribute to the great Dickens. Dickens was undoubtedly a great prophet, a visionary author. A Tale of Two Cities. In this worldly age, it was a magnificent feat, but now it's merely a natural part of the Big Bang. Hawking's theories apply not only to physics but also to the evolution of humanity. Even God felt a sense of awe before human cities, causing people to speak different languages ​​to prevent humanity's ambition to build the Tower of Babel and steal the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and Life. This will soon be medically achievable, as it seems humans are increasingly learning each other's languages. Humanity will ultimately achieve immortality; what hinders humanity is not God, but humanity's own ambition. Cities filled with love and desire—this is the allure of cities. Humanity's intelligence has led them to lose themselves in their own creation, a big city brimming with love and affection. This is the perfect city created and evolved by a diverse society.

Sex and the City, a city of lust and desire, is a place where humanity's intelligent creations have led us astray. This city, a multi-dimensional world filled with love, romantic fantasies, and even "art love," is, in fact, a true embodiment of diverse societal evolution. The art sculptures representing certain desires and wills, the expansion and contraction of urban desires, are precisely the tipping point of the city's contradictory charm. What we see is a three-dimensional world devoid of life's motivations; in broad daylight, this three-dimensional world only evokes the image of lonely, withered old people—that's not a city. The inner, tangible manifestation is like the vibrant, energetic models on the runway, while youthful beauty is rarely seen on the city streets, almost giving an impression of decay. That's not the true face of Sex and the City. Do those living in the city need a soul, or do they prefer to see vibrant, energetic, and beautiful goddesses, beauties, and young models? The external often represents the extreme hypocrisy of the inner world. This is how it exists. Men like women; men say women are the embodiment of their souls. Is this interpretation acceptable? Did God take a rib from man, so that man's soul already exists in woman? Is this God's will, or the innate will of love that men and women possess? God's will and the innate will of men and women are completely different. There are too many men in the city who have lost their souls. These men seek women to redeem their lost souls, like fish and meat. Is this why men and women in the city can never resist the temptation of love and romance? Because woman is man's soul, woman is the source of man's hope and temptation. Without a soul, a man loses his imagination and creativity, he loses all ambition. There is nothing that can stop a man from being moved by a beautiful girl. Is the ability to be moved simply the appearance of love and romance? It seems I truly loathe the withered impression of the city during the day. There will never again be someone like Willy, whose success as a great salesman was actually driven by infidelity. Frankly, Willy's two sons showed no respect for their father. Why expose his affair? It robbed Willy of any will to live in this world. His sons used this method to humiliate their hypocritical salesman. What does the salesman's death signify? It shows that the salesman lived a life devoid of love, devoted only to his family and children. But he needed love; without it, life is soulless, meaningless. All of Willy's embarrassment, his very existence, all the life-or-death struggles he faced, all came to a head in that moment of infidelity. Willy wanted to catch his breath, to breathe through the affair, but his sons wouldn't give him that chance. They wouldn't give him a way out. It was an embarrassing, almost humiliating situation. Willy was insulted for his affair. What does the beetle represent? They represented the pure spirit of music, the pure soul of music, and the pure love of music. But Lennon fell in love. Lennon fell in love with a Japanese woman, Yoko Ono. Lennon had the right to fall in love, and Yoko Ono also had the right to love Lennon. But the pure spirit of the Beatles was shattered the moment Lennon fell in love. The Beatles symbolized the perfect spirit of music, but the perfect spirit cannot have the presence of women, because Yoko Ono was not part of the Beatles' music. Just like Bob Dylan's beloved Iliad Odyssey, Homer's epic, the destruction of the Iliad Troy was due to Paris seducing Helen. Therefore, the Etroya must be destroyed. Similarly, the Beatles no longer exist. Yoko Ono is filled with ambition, power, and will; she naturally wants to be Helen. So Bob Dylan continues to sing the Iliad and the Odyssey, ensuring his epic music continues forever. This is the greatness of Bob Dylan. The Beatles were a great band that inspired many of the Beat Generation; they have become a cultural symbol. How I long to listen to them again! It seems that technological advancements have created flawless, perfect sounds, but that's not the birth of true beauty; it's an insult and a degeneration of music.

Many might argue that Lennon had the right to pursue love, but the Beatles were a pure band. After Lennon fell in love with Yoko Ono, the Beatles ceased to be pure; they were no longer the genuine Beatles. At that moment, the Beatles lost their soul! Friendship, marriage, love, family—to have a complete life, one needs true love. However, the irony of history is that the love lives of great figures are often fantastical, full of ups and downs. Why impose moral rules on ordinary people? Love and romantic love are two different things from morality. Marriage has hijacked morality, or morality has hijacked marriage. There is an invisible force that binds marriage together in the form of love and affection, which is absolutely hypocritical. Men, wake up! In fact, every man can become a pure, foolish old man like Ximen Qing. Ximen Qing, the great official in the novel *Jin Ping Mei*, is the most successful portrayal of male nature in literary history. To put it another way, I don't know if it's appropriate, Ximen Qing is the pure Beatles. Men can all see the shadow of Ximen Qing. This is not an exaggeration for every man in today's diverse society, and it is quite universal. Ximen Qing has both a gentlemanly side and a rogue side. The novel *Jin Ping Mei* shows that the old man Ximen Qing can live freely and unrestrainedly, for love and affection, without any obstacles or hindrances, for the existence of love and affection on a smooth road. This certainly existed in the Ming Dynasty, which is quite rare. In the art of *Jin Ping Mei*, Ximen Qing is always portrayed as an elegant, respectable, and high-ranking official. You can't say he's just a regional philistine. From Meng Yulou's marital fate, we can see that Ximen Qing was actually a true driving force for Meng Yulou's development. In feudal society, it was very difficult for a woman to remain faithful to one man, and it was also very difficult for a woman to escape the tragedy of Lin Daiyu. Jia Yingchun's tragedy was also difficult, but Meng Yulou managed to escape such a fate, which can be attributed to Ximen Qing. At least by Ximen Qing's side, he could treat Meng Yulou like a decorative vase. Meng Yulou's ending was relatively dignified; at least after Ximen Qing's death, she met Li Yanei during an outing with Wu Yueniang. This was a turning point in her fate. Meng Yulou was adept at seizing opportunities for love. It could be said that Meng Yulou's eyes were full of affection, captivating not only Ximen Qing but also Li Yanei. The artistic portrayal in *Jin Ping Mei* showcases Ximen Qing's refined taste. Li Ping'er, Meng Yulou, and Wu Yueniang all perfectly embody Ximen Qing's elegance; at least Ximen Qing did not lose his pursuit of love and romance. Well, ambitious and far from falling into the trap of family life, they were relatively successful in love, career, and officialdom, perfectly embodying the image of a wealthy scholar-official—rich and powerful, a standard very difficult to achieve at the time. Even if these older men couldn't become Ximen Qing or even a part of him, they should at least learn self-redemption, shouldn't they? The city during the day was a gray, desolate landscape, lacking vitality, lacking the vitality of love and romance, worn down by society to the point of losing their zest for life. What does this mean? In the eyes of these older men, it can be summed up in one sentence: lustful old men with no guts, a decadent existence, lacking ambition, seemingly completely oblivious to the beauty of this dazzling world. The drive for progress and the spirit of struggle have lost their soul, truly lost their soul. I was watching a blockbuster in America, and someone pointed out that this film seems to have been inspired by a certain part of *The Count of Monte Cristo*. The Count of Monte Cristo's journey from defeat to rise, culminating in successful revenge, has inspired many novels throughout literary history. This is Alexandre Dumas' contribution to martial arts novels and literature. Similarly, the "Shaw Redemption" advocated by high-achieving students is also relevant. These students particularly love *Shaw Redemption*, having watched it countless times. In fact, if one can understand *Shaw Redemption*, one can understand the formalism of this society's existence: the existence of a multi-element, pluralistic society, the ceaseless evolution of this pluralistic society, and the fact that innovation in this pluralistic society must satisfy the principle of money. There's also the existence of a purist perfection sought in a pluralistic society, a pluralistic society whose pure perfection is maintained solely by money-driven ideology. It's quite ironic. You can understand the art of *Jin Ping Mei* as an ideal world. *Jin Ping Mei* is definitely avant-garde literature of realism and magical realism, the earliest form of avant-garde literature that far surpasses Márquez's. The greatness of *Jin Ping Mei*'s art cannot be denied, because it's a cry for the dignity of literature. *Jin Ping Mei*'s art absolutely preserves the traditional culture, customs, and cultural heritage of the Central Plains. Understanding *Jin Ping Mei* requires life experience, intellectual refinement, and a continuous pursuit of art—the pure, unadulterated spirit of the Diamond Sutra. And one thing Ximen Qing didn't expect was that his cronies... They all betrayed him. Shen Xiaoke's redemption actually emphasizes that everyone must redeem their own destiny, otherwise they will go to hell. Often, a lonely island appears in the sea, and there is a prison on the island. That's right, the soul is imprisoned in the confinement of the body. The spirit can endure it, but the soul is imprisoned. Imprisonment is the only way to eternal liberation. Of course, Meng Liang is currently living a much happier life than Ximen Qing, because Meng Liang never lacks girls to talk about love with. He has an artist brother in Songzhuang who meets many spiritual girls. This is the inexhaustible source of love for Meng Liang, because spiritual girls like a bachelor like him who will never get married. Who would have thought that a despicable bachelor could pick up girls and women even better than Ximen Qing, and all for free? This is also Meng Liang's unique charm. It seems that he has developed charm by talking about love with girls so much. It is a rather strange attraction. It's a bit unorthodox, a bit of a twisted art, but the urban, spirited girls aren't afraid of this kind of old bachelor with unorthodox methods, because this kind of love and romance is particularly exciting. These days, everyone likes exciting, sudden love. Meng Liang's halo of love and romance is very confusing, at least it makes Song Yu feel confused, and it deeply attracts her. Her admiration for Meng Liang's abilities stems from the fact that this theory aligns with Musk's first principles. Playing the piano well actually requires studying physics, logic, and mathematical principles. Then you can understand that Musk's first principles are the foundation of success. The great Musk is not only Iron Man, but also an Iron Man who relentlessly breeds children. Musk's theory of love and romance is about creating new life, constantly creating new life. However, in China and the United States, the cost of constantly creating life is very high because the subsequent education and growth require huge expenses. Meng Liang's love and romance story has a style reminiscent of One Thousand and One Nights and the national autumn—it's magical. You can't imagine...