When others wear books, they enter and become the protagonists.
When I wear a book, I go in to be that person who doesn't even have a name.
I was punished by the Chinese teacher to go to the library to read "The Old Man and the Sea".
When I opened my eyes, I was standing on the boat in Santiago.
The book says: He didn't catch a fish for eighty-four days, but on the eighty-fifth day he caught a fifteen-hundred-pound marlin.
Then the shark came and chewed it until all that was left was a skeleton.
I won't do it.
I'm a science student——
I can figure out where the fish is that the old man can't catch;
I built a trap to catch the impact of 60,000 oxen.
During the 23 pull-ups in physical education class, I opened a hand that was three times stronger than mine with one hand.
They were all brought out from that book.
Save a protagonist and beat him with the same skill.
But after I saved the second and third ones, I discovered:
Every time I save someone, there is one more person in reality.
A man standing on the balcony repeating strange actions.
And there was a name already written on the library card.
My name.
The date is September 8, 1997.
That year, I was not born yet.
