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New jobs can be difficult to adapt to, especially when you apply out of other options to survive.
Cold nights, one meal per day, bearing a huge responsibility for the safety of those who sail the sea... at least there was peace and quiet... or so he thought.
In the case of Lu Guang and against his better judgement, the job itself is not his biggest issue.
He may even have enjoyed the experience had he not set foot on profane grounds, and to make matters worse; he had a mysterious stranded man to
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The lively town grew quiet in the midnight hours, a comfort to Cheng Xiaoshi as he wrapped himself in this illusion of safety and peace. On this rooftop, he could pretend to be brave. The brave little boy his mother asked him to be, standing between those he loved and the dangers whose shadows lingered in Cheng Xiaoshi’s nightmares. He could convince himself he was alright.
Cheng Xiaoshi wasn’t sure how long he sat on that roof, the cold stone digging into his fingertips. He counted so many stars, their light so radiant and vivid this far from the city. In his memories, the few he still carried from his childhood, his parents had taken him to see the stars. On a night like this, when brilliant lights had streaked across the sky, a rain of falling stars, with their camera tripod set up, blankets covering their shoulders and hot cocoa in hand. His mother sang to him, then, of stories of summers long gone, of dreams unfolding, and of the paths that take them to where they might meet again. The loveliest sentiments with the loneliest outcomes.
Cheng Xiaoshi was no songbird, neither was his mother, but he softly hummed the melody she sang.
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Cheng Xiaoshi becomes the unknowing spectator of another person's universe through a comic book of all mediums.
Qiao Ling reads newfound research papers by an author who doesn't exist, and the nature of reality is under question.
Lu Guang grieves.
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Cheng Xiaoshi listens to the silence, watches as dust mites float across an apartment devoid of colour, impersonal and cold.
There are worse fates in the world for those who live. But this on its own, for people like Cheng Jiawei, for people like Cheng Xiaoshi—this sort of loneliness is enough to be excruciating.
"Lu Guang," Cheng Xiaoshi asks. "What does home mean to you?"
He thinks of sandalled feet, the warm hands that had held him that quiet September night, and wishes he'd been brave enough to ask what exactly Lu Guang had meant by his words that day.
If I left and the world went on, would anyone even notice me gone?
In which a client's request forces Cheng Xiaoshi to confront the terrifying ordeal of what it means to love, grieve, and find your way home.
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Step 1: Risk your spot on the basketball team by failing a class.
Step 2: Flirt with your tutor to try to fix it.
Step 3: Flunk the flirting and the quiz.
Step 4: Accidentally fall for said tutor, who looks like he hasn't smiled since dinosaurs went extinct.Cheng Xiaoshi didn't plan on catching feelings. He just wanted to pass statistics so he wouldn't get benched from the basketball team. But now, he’s plotting regression equations and calculating the trajectory of Lu Guang’s perfect shoulders— and one of them is certainly his preferred variable in this equation.
Or, Star Basketball Player: Cheng Xiaoshi’s got a kink for hot nerdy tutors.