Yuzhen: Waiting for a Rain

In 2025, in the subway. Writer Jiang Jiang saw a figure that looked very much like Lin Cuicui in the crowd - at that moment, his heart felt as if he had been pierced by the wind of minus 20 degrees in the north. The car door closed and the figure disappeared, but the "Shuanghe Town" fifteen years ago could no longer be closed. In 2011, there were industrial towns, dim lights in family homes, factory whistles and the roar of railroad tracks. He was sensitive and taciturn, writing poems and stories on the edge of the textbook, and was publicly humiliated by his teacher; she was the monitor, bright and stubborn, but she caught up with him on the way to school and said, "I understand that ending." From that day on, she became his first reader - codenamed "CC", and the only umbrella in his youth. Later, they attended County No. 1 Middle School together, and their dreams began to collide: she wanted to run to a better place, but he was held back by reality. The college entrance examination divided the two people into two parallel lines - she went to a prestigious school, and he went to a junior college; she entered the elite world, and he wrote all night in a dormitory that smelled like instant noodles, and relied on words to swim upstream. Many years later, Jiang Jiang became famous with "Rain Town". The work was adapted, but behind the scenery there was only emptiness. When he returned to the northern county, he reunited with Cuicui in a small restaurant, and a drunken confession revealed all his misunderstandings, self-esteem, and unfinished love all at once - it turned out that the most painful thing was not missing, but the fact that each of them had pushed the other away. In a sentence: This is a novel about "missed people" - we have traveled a long way, and finally found that the most difficult thing to turn over is always the person who called you back by your name.