Broken Bone Umbrella

After the old system collapsed, the city was besieged by acid rain, power outages, hunger and distrust. Shen Zhixing held a black umbrella with a broken bone and worked with Xu Dong and others to rebuild a new social bottom line. They no longer promise heaven, only that when it rains, everyone will have at least an umbrella. But "The Umbrella of Broken Bones" is not a history of the victory of the system. It writes about the wounds behind every repair: the delivery boy who was judged as "non-existent" by the map in the rainstorm, the old man who has been planting trees for thirty years but has no assets, the ALS patient who refused to be a living punishment, the child who was driven to collapse by the standard answer, the student who threatened to burn butterfly specimens for "useless beauty", and those who need an unmonitored corner to breathe. This is a novel about protection, rejection, dignity and residue. Civilization is like an umbrella, it can keep out the rain, but it is not perfect. If the umbrella rib is broken, the person holding the umbrella will also feel pain. The real question is not whether the system can become gentle, but when gentleness can also hurt people, who will admit the broken bone?