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"Following Trilogy" is a series of novels written by Lu Nei based on the growth of the protagonist "Lu Xiaolu". The novels focus on urban and factory life in the 1990s. The three novels are interconnected but independent. In the vigorous wave of the times, Lu Nei resists the Sturm und Drang with playful writing and decorates the loss with jokes. This is a book of laughter and forgetfulness about the 1990s. In this spiritual enclave called "Dai City", everyone can find their own shadow and the unquenched lighthouse. "Young Babylon" is the prologue of Lu Nei's "Following Trilogy". The English version ranked first in Amazon's Asian literature rankings as soon as it was released.

The final chapter of Lu Nei's acclaimed masterpiece "Following Trilogy". The unique Lu Nei style of humor and poetry, the blackness and sadness wrapped in humor, will inadvertently hit your hard or soft heart when you smile. "Where the Angels Fell" not only has new language changes, but also continues to maintain Lue's humor and poetry.

In Daicheng in the 1990s, Lu Xiaolu worked in a chemical factory. He was a confused young man who didn't know where his future and life goals were. I followed a master named "Lao Niubi" and didn't learn any skills. In the mechanic class, you can do nothing but tighten screws, and in the electrician class, you can only change light bulbs. In addition, he also likes to play games, climb factory walls, and fight. Of course, he also pursued women. He fell in love with a factory doctor named Bai Lan, and eventually left him because Bai Lan was admitted to graduate school. Later, 30-year-old Lu Xiaolu sat on the curb and told his lover the stories of those years.

In the winter of 2004, Zhou Shao, the warehouse manager of Meixian Building Materials Company, returned to his hometown to investigate the death of a department colleague in a car accident. At the same time, his long-time friend and Nanjing warehouse manager Duan Muyun left without saying goodbye. One era has passed and another is coming. This is a novel about the turn of the century, from the summer of 1998 to 2008 on the eve of the Olympics, about the strange life of a warehouse manager, about a lover at the age of twenty who seemed like a train disappearing in a tunnel, until the confusion and suicide in middle age, farewell and reunion, a group of people who want to destroy the past me, and what it means to be me. Five chapters, five different styles: dreams, fables, contemporary reality, novel materials, and literary criticism are stitched together into a complex and powerful narrative, full of internal echoes. Affectionate and violent, realistic and confusing, it leads readers across the 318 National Highway of rhetoric, and reaches the Himalayas at the end of the novel.

In Rose Street in the 1980s, time flowed like water in front of the door, and people kept pace with appointments. People leisurely ate breakfast while gossiping about secrets shared forever among neighbors. This was how the day began. After Gu Dahong, a photographer at a state-owned photo studio, started working alone, he didn't look like a businessman pursuing his future. In the morning light, he captured the silhouette of his lover Guan Wenli with her head lowered. Daughter Gu Xiaoyan has begun to bloom in adolescence, with a brightness that she dare not look directly at and a beauty that is breathtaking. The son tilted his head and used his taciturn perspective to watch his father's hidden emotions, and also looked up at the arrogant phantom of his sister. At the same time, he learned to miss the girl he liked. A duel at a dance, a conflict between teenagers, although the gardenias on Rose Street are still blooming as usual, an era of dancing has no choice but to end and become a thing of the past. In Flower Street Past, Lu Nei uses words to lead us on a journey through the nostalgic 1980s.

In 1990, there were forty boys in the 89th-level maintenance class of the Chemical Technical School. Lu Xiaolu, Da Fei, and Hua Pants rode their fast bicycles against the light. Behind them were girls like Men Men and Dan Dan, who gave them nightmares. In the wilderness of seventeen years old, they were busy, crowded, and lonely. We read the story of their youth at this moment, and also read the past of the 1990s when their youth lived.

When Shuisheng was twelve years old, there was no food in the village. Shuisheng's father found the last wild carrot in the field and cut it open for the family of four to eat. Shui Sheng's father said, "If we don't leave, the whole family will starve to death here." Shui Sheng's mother held Shui Sheng's hand, and Shui Sheng's father carried Shui Sheng's younger brother on his back and went to the city to join his uncle. Since then, the life and death of Shui Sheng's parents and younger brother have not been known. When he was twenty years old, Shui Sheng entered a chemical factory, and there were jade, root, and resurrection in his life... And then, he was the only one left. His hometown has long been in ruins, and he has to live. He has to find his way home for Yusheng and his father, and leave a way home for his resurrection... The novel starts from the era of state-owned factories and tells a vertical story of an individual's life for fifty years. It analyzes and shows the impact of the great era on ordinary people from a cross-section. In the book, Lu Nei accurately shows that in the changing background and environment of the times, the relationship between people changes, from mutual suspicion and informing to forgetting each other over the years, and also from step-by-step harmony to revenge after the awakening of personal consciousness. Although the bloodless grudges of these little people are hidden in life, they are the main memories of life. No one knows the final result. The ups and downs of life and death of ordinary people will only be lost in the era, and we can only live longer than the era in which we grew up.

I am Lu Xiaolu, I am here, I go to get off work and get off work, I run around, I don't know why I want to write poetry, I am not afraid of being flattered, but I am afraid of being laughed at, so please forgive my cowardice. I want to go far away, but the far away is too far. I want to live on the ground, but I feel uneasy. I walk through the fog. I don't know I will. Become someone, but I know I can't be someone I just have to reject mediocrity Later, I understood why there was so much time when I was young, like empty emotions, never-ending Later, I learned the truth of life, I will no longer laugh at a twenty-year-old boy who cries inexplicably

I am Lu Xiaolu. I was here when I was eighteen years old. When I was eighteen years old, I really had nowhere to go. The teacher in junior high school said that we are like the sun at seven or eight o'clock. Graduation from junior high school is at eight or nine o'clock. When I get older, it is the sunset. I think we should look at it backwards. Life is a night. So when I was eighteen years old, I was in the most beautiful time of dusk and then a long night. I died one day and saw the red sun rising in heaven. I still don't know why. What kind of pain can stop time and what kind of happiness can make us live and die. But I understand what my cousin said. Loving someone or not loving someone is like a long road. It takes a long time to understand that when everything becomes dull and trivial, the past is not worth mentioning. Our maturity has just begun. This matter sounds sad, but it is true.

The happy, natural, poetic and boring growth story of a group of teenagers. Although Lu Xiaolu, Yang Yi, Yu Xiaoqi and Zeng Yuan were born and had different experiences, in the summer of 1990, in the small and isolated town of Daicheng, they all had the desire to escape and began to pursue the future and love. The setbacks they encountered were so similar, and their confusion and failure were also almost the same. They met and then separated, with tender violence mixed in between, a restrained but touching love story, and the most sincere brotherly love.

At the beginning of this century, Xia Xiaofan, a computer major from a third-rate university, was about to graduate, but he could never forget the nameless senior sister with whom he had a one-night stand in his freshman year. It was said that she was killed on a dark road by a perverted head-banging maniac. The murderer has been apprehended, but the mystery has not yet been solved. A few years later, the head-knocking case reappeared, causing panic in the school. The beautiful school girl Bai Xiaowei was stalked by a pervert with squinting eyes and disappeared soon after. Her romantic life and the past between her and Xia Xiaofan prevented the latter from calling the police and could only embark on the journey to find the missing person alone. A schizophrenic coffee shop waiter, a grocery store owner whose skull was broken by a hammer and stopped growing, a job-hunting girl who died of a cat, strange or familiar people left here one after another, and he is still on the way to pursue the murderer...