[Slow article] My name is Sun Nuo, a member of the "Counter Strategy Investigation Team". After it disappeared, my husband and children disappeared on the other side of the blue light, leaving me alone with the ruins of civilization.
Day after day, I parsed the dangerous strategies left over from the old world, trying to fill the hole in my heart with the ruins of reason. Until a paper called "On the Reflector of Destiny" appeared in front of me, which put forward an almost cruel proposition: "Are you willing to give up everything you have and return to that crossroads of life-changing choices?"
It was at this time that I met her - Shen Qian.
She has a face that is exactly the same as mine, but with a lightness and freedom that I have long lost. We have a tacit understanding like twins, exploring the truth behind the paper together. However, the deeper I investigated, the more horrifying synchronicities I discovered: She knew all of my habits, sang my songs to put my children to sleep, and even had a birthmark similar to my daughter's.
Finally, the truth comes with thunder. Shen Qian is not another person, but myself, the "I" who "did not choose marriage or become a mother" at the crossroads of fate. It is the great regret and the disturbance of disappearance that jointly create this living paradox.
Now, what is before me is the ultimate choice proposed in the paper: Should I erase all pain and return to the origin? This means that I will also lose the profound memory of being a mother.
This is a story about love and obsession, loss and integrity. When you meet your potentially happier self at the end of the apocalypse, how will you choose? Should we embrace the scarred truth or move towards flawless nothingness?
Reader comments
Although it is a doomsday novel, this one is more like a prose poem and it is so beautifully written.
When the female character faces the apocalypse, she seems to have a different intuition and a different character that stands proudly.
Within the framework of a doomsday novel. He wrote the most perfect human nature. This is less like a traditional novel and more like a perfect prose poem.
Although it is a doomsday novel, this one is more like a prose poem and it is so beautifully written.
When the female character faces the apocalypse, she seems to have a different intuition and a different character that stands proudly.
Within the framework of a doomsday novel. He wrote the most perfect human nature. This is less like a traditional novel and more like a perfect prose poem.