In Xu Fangchang's memory, the summer of 2014 was very hot. In her impression, no summer in the past twenty years had been so hot. The heat made her despair.
The temperature in many cities across the country remains high, exceeding 40°C. That year, she and her roommate put wet towels on their bodies every night in a dormitory without air conditioning to cool down. So much so that she once thought that if she continued like this, she and her roommate would probably be taken away by 120 due to a stroke, or they might suffer from rheumatism or cold legs in advance.
The electric fan whirred all night long. She and her roommate went to the bathhouse three times a day, but they couldn't stop the sticky feeling caused by the sweat on their bodies.
It was during this dizzying summer that she made a decision. She decided to leave the city where she had lived for twenty years and go to an evil capitalist country that she never wanted to go to. She decided to go to a place without Huo Jiao.
She told herself that she was going to go on her own and no one could stop her. But in fact, she ran away.
She still remembers the ringing of her cell phone in the pouring rain on the way to the airport, and the last words he said to her.
He said: "If you leave, never come back."