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我写的双语小说《沐于浮华》Bathing In the Limelight他突然明白了。这世道从来就没变过。变的只是卖糖的方式。以前他爹在集市上扯着嗓子喊"糖——来买糖——"，嗓子喊出血来，一天也卖不出几斤。现在呢？把糖装进一个印着洋文的盒子里，贴上"手工""古法""匠心"的标签，价格翻二十倍，人们还排着队抢。以前他在糖里熬的是苦——生活的苦，穷的苦，没出路的苦。And then, it dawned on him. The world had never changed—only the way one sold candy had. In the old days, his father would stand at the market, straining his throat to holler—"Candy! Get your candy here!"—his voice bleeding by midday, barely selling a few catties in a whole day. Now? You take the very same candy, slip it into a box stamped with foreign script, paste on labels like "Handmade," "Time-Honored," "Artisanal," and the price jumps twenty-fold—and people still queue up to fight over it. Back then, what he boiled into the candy was bitterness—the bitterness of life, the bitterness of poverty, the bitterness of a dead-end road.
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