Cheng Xinrui's life is like her modified second-hand motorcycle - on the surface she is a "state-owned enterprise technician" that her parents are proud of, but on the inside it is a roaring illegally modified engine. After failing the high school entrance examination in 1998, this well-behaved daughter of a working-class family met two people who changed her destiny in a private high school: Lin Xiao, a young master from a pharmaceutical factory who always wore crisp school uniforms, and Chen Xia, her best friend who grew up together but was secretly jealous.
When Lin Xiao grabbed her oil-stained wrist in the leaky gymnasium, and when Chen Xia stuffed the transferred love letter into her locker, the gears of fate began to turn, wrapped in engine oil, medicinal powder and tamagoyaki debris. Cheng Xinrui used the oil stains between her fingernails to cover up the girl's worries, playing the role of a model student at the parent-teacher meeting, but dismantling taboos in the carport at midnight; Lin Xiao disguised the sequelae of the laboratory test medicine as a cold, just to hear one more scolding from her; Chen Xia collected all the scraps of paper discarded by Cheng and wrote curses and prayers on the back.
Over the past twenty years, the three of them meshed with each other like out-of-control mechanical parts: Lin Xiao's suicide note was hidden in Cheng Xinrui's motorcycle helmet, Chen Xia's teacher's computer was filled with candid screenshots, and Cheng's modification drawings were secretly flowing in Lin Xiao's pharmaceutical factory assembly line. When the daughter raised her helmet at the parent-teacher meeting, when the star-shaped pendant with excessive radiation melted into the rivets of the bridge across the river, those years soaked in engine oil finally emerged - it turns out that the most sophisticated machinery will rust, and the deepest love finally became a line of diagnosis scrawled on the medical record card.
This book uses the details of working-class survival as screws to tighten an emotional dilemma that spans twenty years:
The style button ties the heartbeats of three people
Feeding Tamagoyaki to Stray Cats and Secret Desires
Claustrophobia grows in the surveillance of ancestral halls
Radioactive pendant illuminates cracks in mid-life marriages
When Cheng Xinrui finally carved the names of the three people on the bridge's steel cables, she finally understood: Some feelings are like motorcycle parts, which need lubrication and maintenance throughout their lives, but can never fit perfectly.
Concept: Feng Ji Buckle ties the heartbeats of three people. Tamagoyaki feeds stray cats and secret desires. Claustrophobia grows in the surveillance of ancestral halls. Radioactive pendants illuminate the cracks in middle-aged marriages.