“We regret to inform you that your train has been delayed. Thank you for your understanding.”
Li Zhi stood in the crowded waiting hall, staring at the screen as the time jumped from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. in an instant.
The same announcement played for the second time. That meant the train was now a full four hours late!
Li Zhi, from years ago, still hadn't realized that this was a city's final attempt to hold on to him.
Then a gust of wind swept through, stirring the flower-patterned umbrella on top of the black suitcase.
He'd brought it from his dorm when he left school ten years ago. He'd never used another umbrella like it since.
“This is that train from ten years ago!”
Li Zhi burst into tears. The story he'd once been trapped in flashed past in an instant: everything that had been forcibly taken from him by some kind of creature.
An insect.
