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He Saw Light
Short Fiction他看见光
One String And One Column Miss The Years
2287, peace. When Lin Yuan woke up, the first snow of the year was falling outside the window. The number on the monitor jumped a few times and returned to zero. He sat up and put his palms against the wall as he had done every morning for the past two hundred years. Warm. The thermostatic system never failed, but he still made a habit of checking it - this action came from the winter of 1921, when he first touched the wall of the landlord's house where the heater was burning. He was only sixteen years old at that time, and the cuts made by rice straw during the autumn harvest were still embedded in the gaps between his fingernails.
2287, peace. When Lin Yuan woke up, the first snow of the year was falling outside the window. The number on the monitor jumped a few times and returned to zero. He sat up and put his palms against the wall as he had done every morning for the past two hundred years. Warm. The thermostatic system never failed, but he still made a habit of checking it - this action came from the winter of 1921, when he first touched the wall of the landlord's house where the heater was burning. He was only sixteen years old at that time, and the cuts made by rice straw during the autumn harvest were still embedded in the gaps between his fingernails.