How Pigheaded Our Hearts Are

The protagonist of the novel, Cai Xuemin, Laosi or Siye later, and his lover and later wife, Xue Liyan or Ayan, are related to lust of people from mutual attraction at the beginning. Their joys and pains in life are also closely related to lust of people. The lust seems to have nothing to do with the love and devotion never changing until death which are constantly written about. It is related to the infinite demand and wanton indulgence of people for desires. Even in the era of the educated youth, under the circumstance that the conditions of indulgence were extremely limited, the flowers of lust still bloomed quietly.