The Year the World Ended

【A refreshing, healing story for readers born in the 1980s and 1990s, with no tired tropes or over-the-top drama】 1999, on the eve of the new millennium. A small residential compound in the southwest was struck by an “apocalypse.” A man caught his wife cheating. Her lover jumped off a building and escaped by diving into the water, but left a key behind at the scene. The man made hundreds of copies and handed one to every woman in town. “Give it a try. If it opens your door, that means your husband’s home.” Qi Lin had just gotten married and was in the throes of newlywed bliss with her husband. Naturally, she didn’t go to get a key. But that very night, with a creak, someone used that key to open the front door of Qi Lin’s home. Qi Lin felt as if she’d plunged into an icy pit. From the moment that key appeared, strange things kept happening in the residential compound…