1, Half-Life is Zhang Ailing's first complete novel, originally named Eighteen Springs, which was completed in 195 1 year. Later, during Zhang Ailing's trip to the United States, it was rewritten, and some slightly political endings were deleted and renamed Half-Life. The novel reveals all aspects of society and human nature through the joys and sorrows of young people's marriage.

2. Half Life Fate tells the love and hate of several young people in old Shanghai. They used to be destined for each other, but in the end they parted ways. A few ordinary men and women, Shi Jun, Man Zhen, Shu Hui and Cui Zhi, a group of urban young people can be seen everywhere, telling a little crazy love-hate relationship that is not bizarre. At the same time, the earth-shaking changes in China's modern society, such as September 18th, December 18th, the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the takeover by the Kuomintang, the liberation of Shanghai, and the support for the Northeast, only set their background and vaguely painted a turbulent background for their stories.

Shen Shizhen and Gu fell in love, but his family urged him to marry his cousin Shi. Gu's sister dropped out of school to be a social butterfly to support her family's living expenses. In desperation, she finally married Zhu with a wife and children. Facing Shi Jun's family, Man Zhen felt deeply inferior, but Shi Jun mistakenly thought that Man Zhen had fallen in love with Zhang Yujin, who used to be Man Lu's boyfriend. His father entrusted him with his family business when he was in danger, so he had to return to Nanjing and live apart from Man Zhen. In order to please Zhu, Manlu sacrificed her sister's happiness, let her give birth to a son for Zhu, and prevented Shi Jun from looking for it. Finally escaped from the clutches of Man Luhe and found Shi Jun.. Soon, Manlu died, went back to take care of her son, and finally married Zhu.