If time could fold, where would you most want to return to? Carrying memories from 2026, Gu Mingzhe wakes beneath the shadows of plane trees in Shencheng.
Within his sixteen-year-old body lies a perceptiveness and composure that don't belong to someone his age. He knows which way the tide is turning, but not the precise reefs in his path.
In this city where the old and new are changing places, amid the scent of old parts on Qiujiang Road and the boat whistles on the Suzhou River, he tries to hold on to something more real than foresight. Perhaps it's a group of people clumsily yet sincerely standing by one another, perhaps it's a pair of quiet eyes in the afternoon sunlight.
The young are too inexperienced to know better, and yet those are life's happiest days.
What he must do is find a shore worth reaching for, in the tidal zone between the old and new waves, for all the things we were once too young to understand, but that will eventually pass away.
Note: This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
