Introduction to the novel "Snow Falling Without Traces"
The winter snow of 2017 fell on the bluestone road of the small southern town, and also fell on the lives of Chen Mo and Lin Shen.
Chen Mo is a researcher on the history of the Republic of China at the Municipal Museum. He is silent and reserved, and is used to looking for spiritual sustenance among old papers. Lin Shen is a Chinese teacher at No. 1 Middle School. He is gentle and elegant. He uses his lens to capture the light, shadow and poetry of the world. In the social science area on the third floor of the city library, they met through a copy of Camus's "The Stranger", and the two lonely souls found resonance between the lines.
Their love is like the quietly falling snowflakes on a winter night, quiet and passionate. We chatted about literature together in the cafe, took pictures of the scenery by the reservoir in the suburbs, and shared the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve. But this transcendent emotion is destined to face heavy pressure from family and society. Lin Shen's parents cannot accept their son's sexual orientation. Rumors in the school are flooding in. Chen Mo is also struggling with secular prejudice and inner desire.
In the summer of 2018, Lin Shen chose to escape. He left a letter and went to Shanghai alone, never to be heard from again. Chen Mo searched like crazy, but only found an empty room and endless thoughts.
Four years later, fine snow fell again in the alleys of Shanghai. Chen Mo renewed his relationship with Lin Shen in a retro bookstore
