Nine Ink Carvings

Taking the real Chinese barber market as the stage, the protagonist uses the oriental fusion simulated in his mind to fight his way out in a highly competitive environment with numerous genres and brands. His name is Chen Pingfan. As his name suggests, he is extremely mediocre. After graduating from a technical secondary school, he was clumsy with his hands and mouth. He worked as a hair shampooer for two years in an old-fashioned barber shop in Lingzhou that was about to close down. The master said that he was not qualified to eat this bowl of rice, and the apprentice at the same time called him "shampoo boy" to his face. The only thing he knows how to do is to use a cracked-screen mobile phone to secretly watch foreign Barber videos in bed. Watching the early morning, he sees those hair clippers as precise and smooth as paintbrushes in the hands of foreigners. Then he discovered that he could practice it in his head. Once, ten times, a hundred times. There was no head mold, no clippers, and no money to buy any decent tools, but he could build a complete "practice room" in his mind - the angle of the clippers, the strength of his wrists, the depth of the blade's cut, and he could practice every movement over and over again until his muscles remembered the feeling. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.