Twenty-nine-year-old Zheng Xiaodong is an inconspicuous member of the tens of millions of drifters in Shenzhen.
It was difficult to start a business and he had very little savings. Seeing that the threshold of "thirty" was just around the corner, he failed repeatedly in the blind date bureau in his hometown. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, he fled to the Guanyin Temple in Shahuzhang and made an almost extravagant wish amid the incense: for a beautiful girl with slender fingers, a beautiful singing voice, and proficiency in English.
Fate responded on Valentine's Day 2016.
In the cabin at an altitude of 10,000 meters, he sat next to He Xiaoyan, a recent graduate. The identity of fellow villagers and the compatible souls made this chance encounter instantly turn into a fateful encounter. In order to maintain his dignity as a man in front of the girl he likes, Zheng Xiaodong gritted his teeth and maxed out his credit cards just to take her to a dream about the future by the West Lake.
From the heroic words in the middle of the West Lake, "I bought an island and built you a villa", to the embarrassed figures running hand in hand at Hongqiao Airport; from the elegance of Suzhou gardens to the cramped urban villages of Shenzhen.
This is a story about "painting cakes" and "eating cakes". When the tide of passion recedes, facing the high prices in Shenzhen and the pressure to start a business, can Zheng Xiaodong turn that wild talk by the West Lake into the longest love confession in the rest of his life?
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This work depicts the entrepreneurial hardships and sincere emotions of Shenzhen's "deep drifting" youth through delicate brushstrokes. It cleverly blends romantic love stories with the cruel reality of e-commerce entrepreneurship, and shows the tenacity and warmth of contemporary young people in the pursuit of dreams and love.
Reader comments
It's quite beautiful and charming. When I take a leisurely look at it, I feel like I'm falling in love all over again.
It's quite beautiful and charming. When I take a leisurely look at it, I feel like I'm falling in love all over again.