One by one, the people around Lin Yinghua left her: her strong, dependable father, the mother who had doted on her when she was little, the grandmother who had been her whole world, and her childhood friend. She thought life would keep getting better. She thought that opening a little grocery shop would give her something to look forward to.
In high school, she met a boy she liked, but it came to nothing. Until college, she always thought her life was utterly ordinary and that she would grow old alone. Then a lot of things happened that couldn't be explained by science. She began to lose track of whether she was in reality, a dream, or perhaps caught up in cause and effect.
