Balcony at Midnight

Name: Balcony at Midnight
Author: Wu Tang

夜半阳台

by Wu Tang (吴漛)

Status: Completed
Length: 611k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 26d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Building 3 of the Tiedong Factory Compound is an old staff apartment block from the 1990s, soon to be demolished. Its south-facing balconies overlook an abandoned factory, making them the most remote blind spot in the entire compound's surveillance coverage.

2:07 a.m. is the nightmare hour for Lin Chen, a resident of Apartment 301. Every few days, his taciturn neighbor, machinist Gu Bingwen, climbs over the forty-centimeter-wide concrete divider, hangs a heavy, unidentified package on Lin Chen's clothesline, then silently leaves half an hour later.

A senior who collects recyclables, distant relatives trying to seize his home, thugs collecting debts through violence, and officials forcing residents to move: everyone who has clashed with Lin Chen or entered this apartment building vanishes into thin air, with no trace of life or death.

Lin Chen is convinced his strange neighbor is a serial killer. He scatters lime, installs surveillance cameras, and digs into the Gu family's old case from nineteen years ago, doing everything he can to tear open the truth. But as the surveillance blind spots are gradually filled in, he discovers in shock that the net closing around the killer has been targeting him all along.

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