Network novels have a broad and narrow sense, broadly speaking, can include all the novels published and circulated on the network, but from the origin of network novels on the narrow level, mainly refers to the network writers to create and first published on the Internet, and then circulated in the form of novels. Nowadays, web novels are mainly divided into two types, one type of novels read by boys and the other type is novels read by girls, most of the novels read by boys seek to be powerful from body to power, while most of the novels read by girls are from the angle of love, and the power of these two types of novels depends on the ratio of men and women on the Internet.

So in both the broad and narrow sense, Zhang Xiaoxian's novel "The Woman in the Breadfruit Tree" belongs to the network novels, which have now been published and made into a TV series of the same name.

The Woman in the Breadfruit Tree:

The novel is part of the "Breadfruit Tree" series by Hong Kong writer Zhang Xiaoxian, the other two being The Breadfruit Tree Has Gone Away and The Wandering Breadfruit Tree.

The story depicts three best friends, from the beginning of their love affair to the difficulties they experience on the road of emotions, each looking for the end of love.

About the author:

Siu-Hsien Chang is a Hong Kong writer who became famous in 1995 for her first full-length novel The Woman in the Breadfruit Tree, and has become the most popular romance novelist in Hong Kong after Yishu. Her works are good at depicting urban male-female love and are popular among young readers, often hitting the bestseller list as soon as her new novels are published. With over forty novels and essay collections published to date, she has created a unique kind of love literature that is both tender and sharp.

The Woman in the Breadfruit Tree[1] is my first novel, and it's been eighteen years since then. The past is like yesterday, but it's also a distant yesterday, and I really don't know where to start with my many thoughts. This novel was serialized daily in 1994 in Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper,

In 1995, it was published as a book. Six years later, I wrote two sequels, The Bread Tree Has Gone Away and The Wandering Bread Tree. Over the years, readers have often asked me if the story of the breadfruit tree will continue to be written. I don't have an answer in mind.

Will there be an end to all stories? The best ending for a book is often in the mind of the reader, not in the person who created it.

When I wrote the book, I was the God of the novel, I created it, and did my best to give it a beautiful life; after the story was finished, I was no longer God, I was just a mother, and when the time came, I should let go, and let the child fly free.

In the story of the breadfruit tree, Lin Fangwen wrote many beautiful songs for Cheng Yun, and the three novels of the breadfruit tree are also a long song composed by me in words, singing about the splendid youth, singing for the meeting in the world, and singing for the love that is so entangled in obstinacy. Please take this preface as a short song, I'm not Ge Mier, I do not have a moving voice, this song, is for the new knowledge of the old rain and sing, but I hope that this song will never come to an end, just like we have had all the heartfelt love, time and day is getting far away, always with the memory of the companion, never old. Every time I look back, it still hurts.