Suzhou Slow

In 2004, 16-year-old Ah Cheng skipped school and went south, becoming an unkempt night-shift network administrator in Shiquan Street, Suzhou. In the dim blue "frog eye" light of the CRT monitor, he met Su Wan in white clothes. In the game, she is Emei who saves lives and heals the wounded, but in reality, she is the proud daughter of Su University. I have been obsessed with him for two years, but I have been blocked and added back again and again because of my low self-esteem. Until she said "You deserve a better life", Cheng smashed the keyboard, turned around and plunged into the dust of the city's infrastructure. After ten years of ups and downs, he changed from a plumber apprentice to an ancient building restorer. He caught up with the real estate dividends, but he couldn't catch up with her youth. Years later, at a second-hand bookstore on Pingjiang Road, he took out a golden nanmu jasmine carved from the scraps of his old house, and said with a clumsy smile: "Before, I only had the world in the game, but now I have real bricks and mortar. I wonder if I can exchange it for you for a cup of tea?" This is the story of a young man who spent ten years moving from virtual reality to reality just to watch a slow rain in Suzhou with her. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.