The Sixth Day

On his sixth day as a delivery boy, Li Mo collapsed at the gate of Hefengli Community in Qingdao. He is a psychology graduate who studied abroad. His family owes millions in debt to support him, but he delivers food without telling everyone - one hundred orders a day, just to save money to pay off the debt. The person who stopped him was 54-year-old security guard Zhao Changhai: the community stipulates that vehicles are prohibited from entering, and a fine of 50 is fined for each pass, which is half of his daily salary. A chance to upgrade on "running a hundred orders in a row on time", a livelihood hanging on a fifty-yuan fine, two people who were forced into a corner by life, spent the remaining eight minutes walking step by step towards the nineteen-yuan street knife. In a restrained and calm tone, the novel describes how a tragedy is driven by rules, poverty and respectability - and the most painful part is when the mother touches the smooth planed board, just like touching her son's forehead when he was a child.