The Story of a Floating Life

This is a half-life relationship hidden deep in the Loess Plateau that no one knows or bless. Zhou Jianming was once a respectable and stable ordinary person in the town. He had seen the prosperity of the market and experienced the hustle and bustle of the world, but he saw through the falseness of human relationships and got tired of being polite. Chen Shoushan is a mountain farmer who has been rooted in the mountains for decades. He has been lonely and taciturn for most of his life, guarding a small loess courtyard and surviving the cold and heat year after year alone. The two looked at each other from afar when they were young, separated by the distance between urban and rural areas and the worldly gap. After all, they regretted missing half their lives. When he reached middle age and had washed away all his glory, Zhou Jianming put aside all the glitzy prospects and worldly respectability in the outside world and rushed to this barren and vast loess ravine to meet the person he had missed for many years. There is no grand confession, no consummation of blessings from all, only the trivial daily life of the four seasons, the poverty of fireworks in the loess mountains, and the silent presence day and night. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.