The day her mother left home, Xia Lin'nan pointed at the door and shouted, "Go."
A year later, she opened her mother's notebook and copied down a line: "Travel far and wide, through mountains and rivers."
Shanshui County has mountains and a lake. At the bottom of the lake lies a thousand-year-old city submerged forty years ago, while beside the lake lies an unsolved case that has remained open for ten years. In the summer of 2002, a skeleton was unearthed in the same woods. The time of death was exactly one year earlier, when her mother disappeared.
The maelstrom of the case swept everyone up in it.
At sixteen, Xia Lin'nan never got to see her mother come home. The truth was buried beneath deep water, like the ancient city, but Xia Lin'nan never stopped diving. This was a very different kind of growing up.
*Two interwoven storylines spanning ten years. Beneath the surface of a criminal case, people hide one another and light the way for one another.*
*A coming-of-age story about a millennium-era girl, wrapped in mystery. Told primarily from the heroine's perspective, with a realistic style and an ensemble cast.*
(Moved platforms. The full text is available on Qidian. Still updating, at two chapters a week, and expected to finish in June.)
Theme: Growing up is never something you do alone.
