Nuoxing

Chen Mo, a young man from Suzhou, bears the "nuo punishment" of his family - as long as he eats rice cakes, he will be forced to "taste" all the memories and emotions of those related to them. My great-grandfather vomited blood and died, and my grandfather threw himself into the river. Now Chen Mo is forced to swallow the expectations of the entire system in his sticky daily routine of monthly exam rankings and overnight vegetable soup rice cakes. Until he saw a girl who looked exactly like himself in a Korean college entrance examination documentary - Li Shuxian. The moment she bit into the convenience store rice cake, Chen Mo tasted the bitterness of late night in Seoul: refreshing medicine, the moisture of the Han River, and a huge fatigue that crossed national borders. Chen Mo ran away from Seoul, and the two formed a spiritual alliance with their broken English and "synaesthesia" that could not be turned off. In the snowy night in the industrial ruins of Northeast China, they tried to confirm with a bloody kiss: Is there still a taste of "themselves" left in their domesticated bodies? "Nuo Xing" is a "sensory sociology" novel that uses a unique "synesthetic narrative" to turn stress into a tasteable physiological response - sadness is the smell of rust, freedom is tasteless clean air. It writes a mirror for everyone who can't swallow it late at night.