The relatively pure love between Xiao Ran and Han Ling is what Liu Yuan longs for, and what Chen Qiming longs for. Xiao Ran and Wei Yuan, the latter maintains a relationship with the former because he is obsessed with the superior life brought by the former's wealth. From a class perspective, there is no difference between Chen Qiming marrying Huang Yunyun, Cheng Lu marrying Liu Yuan, Lu Jie marrying Liu Yuan, Sun Yumei marrying Chen Qiming, and Xiao Ran marrying Wei Yuan. Having clarified this point, we can start with Xiao Ran for the following analysis. Xiao Ran and Han Ling began to fall in love in college, and both vowed to live together forever. Xiao Ran said that if Han Ling and his mother fell into the water at the same time, he would save Han Ling first; Xiao Ran called Han Ling a little cotton-padded jacket, and Han Ling explained it as a caring little cotton-padded jacket;...many details, Xiao Ran and Han Ling each Their memories confirm their past love. After arriving in Shenzhen, Han Ling had two abortions and had many quarrels with Xiao Ran about Zhong Defu (Han Ling's boss). After the initial sweetness, boundless suspicion and quarrels covered their lives. As Xiao Ran's career developed, the man who said "I'm poor, but I love you very much" at the beginning said, "I can find a lot of women like you at any time. If you want to get out, just get out." ." Such words. At this time, I couldn't help but think of Liu Yuan's question - "Is there really something called love in this world?" From the letters that Xiao Ran did not send later, we can be sure that Xiao Ran has always loved Han Ling. . The sentence he erased was this: "I hated you, but it wasn't until you left that I realized that the you I always hated has become an inseparable part of me." Maybe we will understand at this time, Love is a hidden thing. When the initial enthusiasm fades, it quietly sinks into the water of daily life. Only when it is lost, the pain makes it stand out in the memory. But if you only look at Xiao Ran's feelings towards Han Ling in this way, you will easily go the wrong way. The reason why Xiao Ran treats Han Ling who is obsessed with him like this, the reason why he supports Wei Yuan, gambles in Macau, smokes marijuana, and commits suicide in a speeding car all stems from a sense of emptiness deep in his heart - he can't find the value of life, he can't see it. To the mysterious light falling from the sky, the confused soul has nowhere to rest. Perhaps we can think of the famous superfluous person in the history of Russian literature - Pycholin (a character in Lermontov's "Heroes of Our Time"). Bi Qiaolin broke with the current mainstream value life with a decisive attitude, constantly walking and chasing all kinds of women, but never married them - he was afraid that they would restrict his freedom. Without freedom, the pursuit of individual value There is no way to talk about it and its realization. He was aware of the vague need inside him, but he didn't understand what it was. He knew what he didn't want, but he didn't know what he wanted. He tried every possibility, and none of them really satisfied him. Therefore, he cannot take refuge in any possibility, and can only keep wandering and searching until he finds the possibility that truly brings him comfort and peace. Compared with Bi Qiaolin's active and conscious search, Xiao Ran pursues his pursuit of the meaning of life and individual value in a passive manner. He never clearly raised the question "What am I living for, and what is the meaning of my life?" He denied it unconsciously and through passive experience of the dissatisfaction after reaching a certain state of life. We have reached the heights we have reached, and then look for (this search is also blind and disorderly) other substitutes to fill the gullies and gaps in our hearts that have never been filled. Xiao Ran had a perfect love, but soon got tired of it. The suspicion and quarrels made everything boring, so he started whoring. When the money gradually increased, he purchased several luxury homes and luxury cars, took care of Weiyuan, took drugs, gambled...but nothing really satisfied his heart. He said, I am successful now, but I often feel lonely. He said that making money is too easy and increasingly boring. He said, I am very brilliant and dangerous now, maybe I am about to die. Man is born caught between two kinds of pain: material scarcity and spiritual emptiness. When we are in a state of material scarcity, hard work takes up most of our time, and emptiness and boredom seldom visit us; when most of the scarcity is satisfied, spiritual hunger and thirst come quietly, and we are tortured by doing nothing. . We have everything, but why are we still not satisfied and at peace? In order to deal with the growing emptiness, we must find stimulation to motivate ourselves to live. At this time, the reason for living becomes crucial. This is exactly the meaning of Gide's words in "The Food of the World" - "We never know how much energy we expend in order to make ourselves interested in life." Perhaps Zhou Zhenxing's view is the only one that can be correct. He revealed the root cause of Xiao Ran's suicide. He said, "He tried everything, but he still couldn't find a reason to live." He also said that having everything means having nothing. Combined with Xiao Ran's own argument repeated many times on different occasions - it's too boring, we can confirm Zhou Zhenxing's statement. Combining the above analysis, we may be able to make the following guess: Xiao Ran's feelings for Han Ling are just an attempt by him to unconsciously pursue something that can satisfy his soul's thirst, and it is not what eachother said - you are my only one. , or with you I lack nothing. Love is not the end for Xiao Ran, it is just a small fork in the road leading to the unknown. Just because he has no faith, he regards love as faith.

(This can be glimpsed from the narrator in Section 33: "The thing you are looking for is far away from you when you are alive. After you die, it never appears.") When everything After they all disappeared, when life was about to come to an end, among all the things that he could think of that had given him comfort, only love gave him the greatest comfort, so he said that sentence to Han Ling in his letter to express that. Meaning - he has always loved her. It was the deep panic and worry about finding a reason to live after having everything means having nothing that made Xiao Ran feel tired and sad in Japan, in the Caiyi Palace, and in his office. His pupils shrank slightly, which made people feel Find out what he is afraid of. He finally wrote in his will: The world is dangerous. So he went, because he couldn't find what he was looking for, and he couldn't find a reason to live.