Butterfly flies past

Author: Feng Ji
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The young man Bai Chang'an lives in a small town in the Jiangnan region. He has always been solitary and self-enclosed, leading a utopian life away from the world in the small city. Bai Chang'an has a red birthmark shaped like a butterfly on his left clavicle. He carries this birthmark as he enters fashionable Beijing, steps into university, and enters a strange world. University life is both joyful and painful. Lin Fengyang, a handsome classmate with parents who divorced at a young age, maintains a disheartened attitude toward love and keeps ambiguous relationships with many girls. When suspected of being infected with AIDS, he thinks of Ke Ai, who lost his father in childhood and fell in love with a middle-aged man to support his sick mother. Unexpectedly, that man turns out to be Kang Jila, a Tibetan youth whose dream is to become the best hunter. However, in university, no one pays attention to him. In anger and disappointment, he enlists in the army to search for his true dream. Class monitor He Yi, proud and arrogant, sees his confidence plummet after a breakup. Zhang Jiayi, a CS master, wins the national e-sports championship, but after meeting his true love online, he encounters a violent girl named Wang Cenfen, who claims, "No one dares to play with me." How should she begin? The heroine, Zhao Ran, who only wears green knee-high socks, engages in a long love war with Bai Chang'an with her almost perfect personality and attitude. "Like two face-to-face masked enemies, hidden in their sleeves are sharp knives, but neither dares to make the first move." When the two finally decide to step into happiness, a car accident takes Zhao Ran's life. Bai Chang'an instantly loses his direction and resolutely decides to drop out of school and leave. Throughout the entire novel, a mysterious girl crying on the phone follows Bai Chang'an. Who is she? Why is she crying? All is revealed at the end of the story.