Living on the edge of the city, I always feel a kind of bitter boredom, just like the autumn sunshine, which makes people irritable for no reason. There are no more teal ducks in the river pond, only the sun that never sets is shining its last light there. Dad said that we were only one step away from the city, so he took his woman, my stepmother, and left the town. I stubbornly believed that I would not integrate into the city, so I stayed alone in the small town, a place surrounded by mountains and rivers.