"End of Counting—Prime Numbers and Unreturned People" is a stream-of-consciousness novel.
The story revolves around Slow and "I": Slow is a girl who uses numbers to anchor her memory, seventeen poem manuscripts, forty-seven drops of rain, seven hundred and ninety-nine days of renewal - she uses counting to fight forgetfulness, and also uses counting to imprison herself; "I" is an unreturned person wandering in guilt, turning off her phone, tearing up manuscripts, and wandering to escape the unfaceable truth. The novel uses fragmented whispers to narrate, shuttling between the swimming pool, the rooftop of the 17th floor, the seaside hotel and the ridge of the fields. Between Slow's "number" and "I"'s "uncount", it constructs a long confrontation about existence and memory, control and loss of control. Characters such as Again, Repeat, and Haohao reflect the protagonist's imperfections like mirror images, and Slow's phrase "I'm done counting" is both the end of obsession and the beginning of weightlessness. This is a novel about numbers and moisture, fragmentation and preservation, existence without being counted.
Concept: Difficulties in life seem to always exist, just like knowing that youth will never return. But opportunities in life seem to always exist, just as we believe that love, even if it wanders, will eventually come back to us,