Just a Boy

In this story, "I" means me at age thirty-seven, twenty years later, while "I" in quotation marks means me at age seventeen, twenty years earlier. This is a pseudo-transmigration story. In high school, the heroine Chen Chen and the second heroine Xiao Hong both had a crush on a boy named Chen Fusheng. But before Xiao Hong could confess, Chen Fusheng vanished without a trace. The two searched for him for twenty years without success. In the end, Xiao Hong gave up and married someone else, but Chen Chen refused to stop looking. Then, after an accident in the bathroom, Chen Chen returned to the world of "twenty years ago." All she could do was watch the past repeat itself as a bystander, unable to stop it. In the end, Chen Chen discovers that this so-called world of "twenty years ago" is not really the world from twenty years earlier, and learns what happened to the missing Chen Fusheng... P.S. This is a short story, and it's very slightly related to Mask, but you can read it on its own. Theme: