Seemingly So

The protagonist has liked crime-themed novels since he was a child, but because of the sensitive subject matter, no publishing house or website has been willing to publish the protagonist's works in recent years. After graduating from college, the protagonist has been concentrating on writing in his hometown. Gradually, all his friends returned to his hometown from big cities. When chatting with classmates who had lived in big cities and had seen the world, the protagonist began to doubt whether the works he had written for so many years were due to sensitive subject matter or because he had no writing talent at all. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.