Goodbye, 1999

On New Year's Eve in 1979, the Chen family gathered together on the outskirts of An City.

That night, they welcomed the Chen family's fifth child.

He struggled in his mother's womb from midnight on New Year's Eve in 1979 until the Spring Festival of 1980.

His struggle spanned midnight, and then he came into the world.

On New Year's Eve in 1999, that boy had grown up and was about to welcome his own child.

Twenty years, like a full circle.

Over those twenty years, the seasons came and went in An City, the leaves turned green and then yellow, skyscrapers sprang up one after another, and high-speed trains rushing past gradually replaced the slow green trains. The former site of the old industrial district had become a high-tech business park.

Some of the five Chen siblings got married, while others couldn't get married no matter what. Some left home to pursue their dreams, while others remained stuck in place.

After twenty years, could they get a second chance?

Character introductions:

Chen Dongxu: Eldest Chen brother

Chen Dongming: Second Chen brother

Chen Donghua: Third sibling, younger sister

Chen Dongxue: Fourth sibling, younger sister

Chen Dongqi: Youngest Chen brother

Note: The story takes place in the 1980s and 1990s. The one-child policy only began to be fully implemented in 1980, so the five siblings in this story were not affected by it. It was quite common in real life for people born in the 1960s and 1970s to have many siblings. I'm explaining this here to avoid confusing some readers.

Completed book: My Young Friends

Next book: The Twelfth Floor

Mo Xueluo is a notorious troublemaker in Huadu City, giving everyone who hears her name a headache.

She ignores her teacher's lessons at school and leads the others out to cause trouble. Confident in her formidable martial arts skills, she picks fights with the local bully in the eastern part of town whenever she feels like it. Though she is the only daughter of the Mo family, Huadu City's renowned flower growers, Mo Xueluo wants to roam the martial world on her own...

Rumor has it that all the world's martial arts are collected in the Twelfth Floor.

Sixteen years ago, the Twelfth Floor went up in smoke, and the entire family entrusted with guarding it perished. The martial arts secrets stored there vanished without a trace.

Sixteen years later, at the much-anticipated Flower God Festival in Huadu City, chaos breaks out. Mo Xueluo becomes the target of everyone's suspicion: the "Corpse Eater" suddenly appears, the martial arts of the Twelfth Floor return to the martial world, and the imperial government's lackeys, the "Secret Bureau," move in to suppress the unrest.

See how the mighty waves that lie hidden in the silence will one day stir up a raging storm!

Theme: Family is the shore we'll always return to