The Human World in Xiang'anli

Name: The Human World in Xiang'anli
Author: Zi Shuxuanyuan

by Zi Shuxuanyuan

ongoing Realistic Fiction Slice of Life Male Lead

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12Kwords3chapters

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Ch. 3 — Loquat Tree

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About This Novel

In the summer of 1999, a seventeen-year-old girl, Xiao Ran, fled her hometown in a hurry and went north to the capital because of a "scandal" that shocked the whole country. Seventeen years later, she returned to "Xianganli" on Jinling East Road with a house sale agreement, just to completely cut off the last trace of involvement with this city. However, when she pushed open the iron door with peeling green paint, it wasn't just the musty smell and old times that hit her face - her childhood playmate Ah Xing "escaped" back earlier than her. This man who once dominated the business community in Shenzhen now lives back on the ground floor of No. 3 Lane, dragging an old suitcase, a broken marriage, and a hospital diagnosis with no clear cause of illness. Two middle-aged people defeated by fate, on the terrace, under the vines, and in the warmth of Wang's mother's bowl of rice, were forced to face the truth that they had spent seventeen years avoiding: about who Xiao Ran was hurt by, about what kind of secrets were hidden in Ah Xing's silence, and about the scrawled "Nanny, I seem to have found it" in the last letter of grandma before her death.