Seven Trips to Guangdong and Finally Homecoming

Introduction to the work: Seven Visits to Guangdong, Finally Seeing the Way Home is a growth epic about destruction, wandering and rebirth. The story begins with a wedding in a shower - Liu Muchen, who was working numbly at a construction site in the south, received the news that his first love was about to marry another man. After traveling thousands of miles, all I got was "I want stability." His faith in love collapsed, he burned all the tokens of youth, exiled himself to the roaring assembly lines of Guangdong, and began his wandering south that lasted for several years and seven cycles. From the incandescent lights of the electronics factory to the silence in the provincial capital, from the humid urban villages to the shattering of literary and artistic illusions, Liu Muchen tried to bury the past with distance between each trip south and his return home, but he was always wetted by the cold rain of memories and reality. He experienced numb labor, short-lived warmth, collision of reality and romantic illusion. When his heart was filled with despair, the phone call that his father was ill woke him up like a heavy hammer. During the days and nights of his illness, he finally said goodbye to his past obsessions peacefully under the watchful eyes of his father's white hair and his best friends. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.