Translucent Person under Umbrella
by Mengzhu Yiyi
About This Novel
I am Chen Mo, one of the three secretaries of the director of the Municipal Supervision Bureau. My daily work is as trivial as the blank paper that keeps spitting out from the copy machine. Until that day, Lin Zhang, the only male secretary in the team, was late - he fell in the sunshine at the door of the office building, his face pale, and only one word rolled out of his throat repeatedly: "water." No one knows that the glass of water I handed over became the first crack in fate. Lin Zhang couldn't live without an umbrella. He held a black umbrella on sunny days and a gray umbrella on cloudy days. Even the blinds in the conference room were turned to the darkest level. I gradually discovered something strange: he always fainted suddenly in the sun, and no one but me could see that momentary limp figure. Finally, he grabbed my wrist before "disappearing" again, his voice trembling: "Chen Mo, I'm almost transparent." He said that when the men of the Lin family reach the age of thirty, they become invisible beings. Sunlight will cause them to faint, and their bodies will become transparent over time. Only the "Destined Ones" can see their final form. Thirty-five years old is a dead line. If you can't find that person, even if you hide under an umbrella, you will completely disappear in the light at sunrise. And I am the only one who can see him fall every time. When Lin Zhang's palms began to see through the shadows, and when his shirt became translucent in the sunlight, I looked at the "thirty-five" engraved on his umbrella ribs, and suddenly understood: This chase of light and shadow has already dragged me into the fate of his family that has lasted for hundreds of years. Am I his salvation, or am I a witness who accompanies him to the end? The answer may be hidden under the umbrella he held up for me every time to block out the sun.
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