Pacific Ocean in Seconds

This is a love story about waiting and arrival. In the winter of 2018, Zhou Yian from Taizhou and Lin Qi from New York met at a declining literary forum because of an essay. Ten thousand kilometers, twelve hours of time difference, three years, three meetings, one thousand and ninety-five good nights - these are all the measurement units of their love. The novel describes a long-distance run across the Pacific Ocean with delicate and restrained writing. From forum private messages to WeChat voice calls, from video calls to the first real hug, from the seven-day countdown in Shanghai to daily penetration in Nanjing, and finally settling down in Shanghai. Zhou Yian's silence and determination, Lin Qi's struggle and courage, in the stacking of countless "good night"s, shortened the width of the Pacific inch by inch. The work measures thoughts in seconds and uses the most ordinary daily life to present the most turbulent emotions. Wang Zengqi's fireworks, Bai Xianyong's nostalgia, and Neruda's love poems run through them, becoming the secret link between the two people's spiritual worlds. When the countdown finally reaches zero, when "good night" becomes "good morning", what the story wants to say is not only the consummation of love, but also the common voice of all long-distance lovers - distance is never a problem, the question is whether you are willing to wait for someone for a lifetime, second after second.