For many people, their hometown is an undeniable sense of belonging and endless attachment. But for Li Shen, his hometown is a painful memory, a source of escape, and a numb response. Hometown is the golden characters on the gray marble of the No. 11 Middle School in Yanzhou City in the north of the motherland. It is the corridors that are blocked between classes. It is the basketball stand on the playground covered with blue and white stripes of school uniforms. It is the name that is avoided.