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Feng, who is Hunter Qi’s daughter-in-law, meets Ye Wenjie when she is recuperating at the hunter’s house. The two women have babies around the same time, and Feng helps nurse and care for the infant Yang Dong. Feng is tender and unintellectual, and she becomes a rare soothing presence in Ye Wenjie’s life.
Feng Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Feng or refer to Feng . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 26 Quotes
Then she substituted the universe in Feng’s heart for the real one. The night sky was a black dome that was just large enough to cover the entirety of the world. The surface of the dome was inlaid with countless stars shining with a crystalline silver light, none of which was bigger than the mirror on the old wooden table next to the bed. The world was flat and extended very far in each direction, but ultimately there was an edge where it met the sky […] This toy-box-like universe comforted her and gradually it shifted from her imagination into her dreams […] in this tiny mountain hamlet deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains, something finally thawed in Ye Wenjie’s heart. In the frozen tundra of her soul a tiny, clear lake of meltwater appeared.
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While Ye recovers from the birth of Yang Dong, she stays with Feng, a villager in the town near Red Coast Base. Feng has no concept of astrophysics and one night wonders why the stars do not fall out of the sky, a question that then allows Ye to reconceive of the universe in this “toy-box” way. Rather than seeing the sky as vast and unknowable, as she does in her capacity as a scientist, Ye now sees something contained (“there was an edge”) and knowable (like “the mirror on the old wooden table next to the bed”). And so Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint ap
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Feng Character Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
The timeline below shows where the character Feng appears in The Three-Body Problem. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 26. No One Repents
...with Qi’s peaceful family for six months. Ye grew especially close to his daughter-in-law Feng, who helped Ye nurse Yang Dong. During this time, Ye found that she had a...
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This brief period of happiness felt almost foreign to Ye. Feng had a child around the same time as Ye, and the two women would watch...
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