The Rain Stopped in the Bronze Age

Name: The Rain Stopped in the Bronze Age
Author: Bo Chenyu

by Bo Chenyu

ongoing Urban Urban Life Male Lead

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4Kwords2chapters

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Ch. 2 — Voiceprint Anatomy

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About This Novel

When the metal starts raining, we can see each other's reality. "Lin Wu is a night shift clerk who lives in a second-hand bookstore under an overpass in the city. He guards the bookshelf that no one cares about and hides his diary in the gaps between coffee stains and old pages. The exam textbooks sent by his mother are piled in the corner like bricks, reminding her of the countdown to "normal life." Shen He is a disabled handicraft maker who runs a stall in the night market. He uses cans to make "talking" metal bookmarks and explores the outline of the world in the dark. The thugs sent by his father often overturned his stall and warned him not to escape his fate in the auto repair shop. They were strangers to each other, but they shared a strange sensory connection - when Lin Wu stroked the pages of the book, Shen He could hear the trembling of the paper fibers; when Shen He welded the metal, Lin Wu's fingertips felt inexplicably hot. A dismantled copy of "The Bloody Gift Lost in the Sea Breeze" and twelve metal bookmarks engraved with Braille became their secret passage across the two ends of the city. They decided to start a silent revolution using paper pages and scrap aluminum: - Dismantle and reorganize the examination textbooks and print pollution data from auto repair plants - Use can gears to assemble "sonic amber" that transmits Morse code - Melt down all the surveillance cameras on a rainy night and let the neon lights under the overpass spell out a huge "Freedom" This is a conspiracy about breaking free from the shackles, and an adventure of self-redemption. When the bronze rain finally falls, those lives that have been buried, torn apart, and declared "useless" will eventually make a deafening echo in the resonance of metal and paper.