Life Is Nothing More Than This

After being laid off by a major tech company, Lin Jue thought he had hit rock bottom. He never imagined that true "descent" would begin the day he rode his bike back to his hometown.

He stumbled into a town with no visible boundaries. Its people were friendly but silent, and time seemed to have stopped. The food delivery app on his phone kept chiming, but the one unfinished order always pointed to him.

He tried to find a way out, only to move step by step toward the past, toward the pain he'd once forgotten, the silent nights, and the words left unsaid.

Maybe this wasn't a trip home.

Maybe it was a long, drawn-out farewell.