Void Patient

There are three states of life: happiness, pain and nothingness. Many times what we hear or see in film and television media are the wonderful parts of life (happiness and pain), while there is another part of life that is extremely boring, helpless, repetitive, and empty. The protagonist of this book, Haotian, is a person living in the new era. He graduated from an ordinary university and works an ordinary job. He is motivated only to make money. He only loves women to get rid of the loneliness of long nights. He likes cigarettes and spirits. He suffers from nihilism, and he often cannot escape the sense of depression that nihility brings to him. He likes to do some crazy things, like listening to rock songs or screaming naked in the living room while reading a book. He likes to get up from bed in the middle of the night to write and write down his feelings about life. For example, this one: "It's pointless to rush out Living is a joke while laughing at others Laughing at myself Can't come back but just run away It's a woman's smile It's a man's raving Or the inner cry The drunkenness of a glass of strong wine Insomnia is the elegy of the night endless Loneliness is like hellfire Brilliant body me and you And him born human Sorry..." He didn't know what he should do to get rid of nothingness, and he didn't know what the true happiness or purpose of living was, but he could always feel the incredibleness of life.