The Other Side of the Skylight

“The world is fair. Fate is what’s unfair.”

In an age ravaged by plague, where the law is all but meaningless, high school student Lin Hanyu receives an unexpected message she has long dreamed of: she has been recommended for admission to the prestigious academy she has yearned to attend for years! Full of anticipation, Hanyu enrolls and meets Chu Xiangyuan, the “artsy young man” she ran into on the train. As time passes, Hanyu, who had planned to join the Student Union’s Student Life Department, is assigned by mistake to a mysterious institute affiliated with the academy: the Academy for Renovators, or AFR for short. Later, a virus invades the city where Hanyu lives, and danger draws near. Just as Hanyu and her companions are about to begin their research project, rumors spread through the institute that one of its members has died, and an atmosphere of panic envelops the entire academy. After an accident, Hanyu discovers in horror that the rumors are true: the “dead person” really exists, and it is the person she knows better than anyone! But the cause of death was not the plague. It was...

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