After a Down-and-Out Writer Was Hit by a Car, He Somehow Returned To

"When the wounds of childhood are reopened, will we still have the courage to face the truths buried beneath them?"

Down-on-his-luck writer Liu Shisan scrapes by on the edge of the city, pushed to the brink by debt, loneliness, and writer's block. A sudden car accident sends his consciousness plunging deep into his memories, back to Canglang Village in late autumn, back to the turning point when his grandmother coughed up blood, his close friend Yan Yang left, and his mother suddenly returned.

This time, the soul of an adult is trapped in a child's body, and he relives that painful yet tender period. At his grandmother's sickbed, his mother's return conceals an unspeakable secret. Behind Yan Yang's departure are two families shattered by a mining disaster. Zhu Xiaohong's kindness and Niu Datian's simple honesty remind him that some wounds have never truly healed.

As reality and memory intertwine, Liu Shisan discovers that he may be able to change how some things end. But the question is: is he searching for redemption in a dying hallucination, or has he really returned to the past?

Having carried memories from a previous life into a whole new life that holds no place in those memories, what unforgettable stories will he experience?

This is a coming-of-age novel about children left behind in the countryside, the shadow of mining disasters, and redemption through family.

It is about little people crushed beneath the wheels of an era, and how they seek warmth amid the ashes.