> In 2030, the mountains in northwest Guizhou.
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> On the day Hou Mingxuan was born, his father said: "With everyone, there is a small family."
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> Then my father left, and so did my mother. The one-month-old baby was left in an empty adobe house.
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> From then on, the only things in his world were his grandma's back, the stones at the entrance of the village, and the busy signal on the other end of the phone.
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> Being called a "bastard", being bullied, and being forgotten. He has no backing, no retreat, only a fierceness that grows from his bones - if you dare to scold me, I will fight you to the death.
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> From left-behind children to soldiers in the military camp, from confusion and inner conflict to finding faith.
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> This is not a cool novel, it is a story about a real person who struggled in the mud for half his life and finally lived as a beam of light.