Zhao Xiwu, 22 years old, works the night shift at a 24-hour convenience store. Her life is like the rice balls neatly arranged on the shelf - lackluster, with a short shelf life, but at least enough to satisfy her.
Until 2:17 in the morning, a customer wearing a gray raincoat walked into the store.
He borrowed the landline phone that was supposed to be for intercom calls, left a hundred-yuan note with mysterious writing on the back, and then disappeared into the night. The cash register opened automatically and fifty yuan disappeared. The regional manager arrived at the scene at three o'clock in the morning and said something puzzling:
"If he comes again, do anything to help him."
Zhao Xiwu didn't know that he was standing in front of a secret crack. On the other side of the crack is a daily backside world composed of "rules" and "gaps" - someone can disappear and reappear out of thin air, someone can send information across time and space through a piece of paper money, someone uses a coffee machine in a convenience store to receive encrypted instructions, and someone uses rice grains in expired rice balls to write passwords.
And she herself seemed to be more than just an ordinary clerk who was involved.
"The Cracks in Everyday Life" is a light suspenseful daily novel set in a convenience store. Here there is the heat of oden cooking late at night, the steam of the coffee machine, the sanitation workers sweeping the streets in the early morning, the subway passengers rushing to catch the early shift - and hidden under all this, another kind of daily life. When the cracks open, the most extraordinary light will shine through in the most ordinary life
