People Are in a Foreign Land

[This article won the Southeast Asian Novel Award in the First Global Chinese Novel Writing Competition] Shanghai, the day Liu Yiyun just received her diploma from Shanghai University, turned out to be the day her father passed away. In order to survive and repay the huge debt left by her father during his lifetime, she had to go to Singapore to work with her friend Lu Tingting. When they first moved into a HDB flat in a foreign country, the two met the 60-year-old Singaporean landlord Lin Shuangjiao. One old man and two young men gradually opened their hearts amidst the bumpy cultural differences. And Yiyun and Tingting also faced workplace crises and tests one after another, and gradually moved towards two completely different life paths...