Seeking the Ferry in the Dead of Night

Synopsis of Nightfall at the Ferry I. Core Premise Set in City S from 2021 to 2024, the novel begins with a murder carefully disguised as a drunk-driving accident in which a car plunges into a river. It follows Lin Shen, a senior executive at a quantitative investment fund, as he faces a series of devastating blows: his wife’s illness, his father’s sudden death, and sabotage at work. Gradually, he awakens an extraordinary ability to perceive with his spiritual consciousness, ultimately exposing the financial conspiracy and redeeming himself. The novel’s central question: In a chaotic world of ever-increasing entropy, how can people save themselves? II. Highlights Dual mysteries: the financial crime plot (Who is hunting Lin Shen?) and the spiritual exploration plot (Who is the person on the other side of the river?), mirroring one another. The philosophy of spiritual consciousness: The novel proposes a theory of “the self-circulation of spiritual consciousness”: past lives and future lives, a thousand lives across countless generations, are all just one life. It blends Buddhist reincarnation, parallel universes, and psychology. A woman’s awakening: Su Wanwan’s journey from “a dancer being watched” to “the author of her own fate” forms the novel’s hidden central thread.