Climax Chengdu, Also Known as Life on the Fringe

This is a chaotic era, and these are the marginal lives of people born in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In Chengdu, an international metropolis, they are ordinary and unremarkable, like the streams of people crossing the streets beneath the traffic lights. Even if you look carefully, you may never see them again.

Several people, connected in some ways yet entangled in complicated relationships, arrive one after another in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. They work in all kinds of fields, living real lives right alongside you and me.

In a marginal city in a marginal era, marginal people act out marginal lives. Countryside and city, tradition and modernity, old and fashionable, standing still and changing with the times, loyalty and betrayal, school and society, career and daily life, nobility and depravity, joy and pain, marriage and love, career and family, the online world and reality... So tender and heartfelt, yet so elusive and unreal; tangled together, yet fighting desperately to break free.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.