Chinese patients

Author: Xu Haiwei
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This is a city that is sick. This is a suspended space. Life in the hospital makes Xu Haiwei fearful and lost. He is not someone who doesn’t want to take responsibility, but he truly doesn’t want to take responsibility. After his father’s condition finally improved, he was discharged from the hospital. The Infinite Excellence Company planned a Mid-Autumn Gala, held at One Step Beach. When everyone was joyfully celebrating on the vast beach, Xu Haiwei suddenly remembered and forgot to pick up the disabled girl Shuyun on that night. Shuyun’s shop had been destroyed in an accidental fire. Several partners of the Infinite Excellence Company also faced dire consequences and were imprisoned due to the corrupt county magistrate’s exposure. Nearing collapse, Xu Haiwei was released from prison through parole. He drifted aimlessly, shaking and staggering like the mad woman, without a fixed address. His spirit was on the edge of illness. One night of heavy drinking and a conversation with Shuyun unexpectedly brought him back to his senses. Extreme helplessness and emptiness, extreme sorrow and regret— he went to Beijing, into a whirlwind of desires, into beautiful marshes, where truth and falsehood blurred. Online chatting, lust and traps, emptiness and exhaustion. In a state of almost the same decay and confusion, he lived in this city and eventually discovered a girl as serene as a lake.