Realistic Version of Fireworks World
About This Novel
"Fireworks in the World·Realism" is a "non-fiction novel" that covers contemporary China. It does not have a protagonist, but fifty ordinary names appear in succession; it does not distinguish between main lines, but allows the undercurrent of the times to intersect between the lines. From carpooling in Yanjiao to odd jobs in Shenzhen, the camera focuses on the corners forgotten by hot searches, recording how ordinary people find breathing in the cracks of algorithms, debt, and disasters. Each chapter is an independent chapter, like fifty long unsent letters, but together it is a "micro history": Some people move their weddings into floods, some people put divorce agreements into shared kitchens, some people mortgage their youth to e-sports, and some people give the rest of their lives to NFT just to believe in another miracle. There is no heroic counterattack here, only immediate survival: the birthday cake in the takeout box still gets bad reviews, and the Peking University master who broadcasts the rice fields still has to pay back his student loan. Let the details speak for themselves: the last fish in the fish tank, the broken mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Night in the construction floor room, the wedding dress that cannot be sold on the second-hand platform. After reading it, you will remember 50 scenes, but it seems that you only see the same back - the one of you dragging your suitcase during the morning subway rush hour with only 13% of the battery left on your mobile phone. This is not a "cure" or a "depression", but an archive of civilians from 2020 to 2025: when the grand narrative ebbs, those wet footprints are our common highlight.
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