“Crossing the line between magic and reality and echoing modern times faced with the plague of the century.”

★The Decameron of our time, the renowned author Luo Yijun has written a new long novel with the most eagerly awaited response to contemporary life!

However, in the end, we're just a bunch of viruses.

A mass extinction more surreal than any novel or film.
The thick wall of six or seven billion people behind us disappeared…

It is as if the world had hit the pause button.
In the deep, quiet valleys of the plague years, a modern Decameron goes on around the clock.
In the end, people will discover that there is a mystery underneath the story…

The director, the nude photographer, the owner of the valley, the model, the beautiful girl, the old monk... all enter the valley to escape from the collapsing world due to the epidemic, and what supports all of them "not willing to go crazy" is the "storytelling" that every day, or every few days, after a rest.

A modern Decameron, the keywords are all from the real world that people can’t be more familiar with: some rumours and anecdotes; a bridge crowded with motorbikes with mudguard hanging the photo of Nakamori Akina at dust; Southwest Aerospace Identification Zone (SAZ), Sukai-33, semiconductors, microchips, currency wars, technological blockade wars; Woody Allen, Nokia mobile phones…

The time in the valley passed in a relay of stories until…

"Oh, my God, I've contacted someone out there! How many are there in your place?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm sorry, I'm probably too excited. There's about a dozen of us on this side, but maybe 30 or 40, and we're in a stream valley with relatively adequate food and medicine. But we have happened a lot of things. Where are you?"

What's going on here? Where is the owner of the valley? Where is the old monk? The conference room in the valley filled with "Starbucks air", instantly covered in layers of mystery: Where are the people who used to engage in a storytelling relay with “me” day and night?

Luo Yijun
Born in 1967, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature and Creative Writing at the Chinese Culture University and the Institute of Drama Studies at the Taiwan Institute of Arts. He has edited annual novel anthologies and is a permanent judge of major literary awards. He has won the 5th United Daily News Literary Award in 2018, the First Prize of the 3rd Dream of Red Mansions Award for World Chinese Long Fiction, the Golden Classic Award for Long Fiction in Taiwan Literature Award, the First Prize of the Times Literary Award for Short Fiction, the Taipei Literary Award, the Recommendation of the United Literary Newcomer Award for Fiction, as well as the Best Book of the Year in many news media.

His works include: “Ming Dynasty”, “Maybe You're Not a Special Kid”, “Taxi Driver”, “Innocent Worries”, “Quang Superman”,” Hoosiers Speak”, “Fat and Thin Against the Write” (co-authored with Dong Qizhang), “Hope Our Joys Remain”, “Daughters”, “Youngest Sons”, “Tales of Abandonment”, “The Book of Faces”, “Depression-era Sleepwalking Streets”, “Hotel Xixia”, “I Love to Luo”, “The Memories of My Future Second Son About Me”, “Descendants of the Twelve Signs”, “We”, “The Far Side”, “Dispel a Sorrowful Mood”, “Lunar Surnames”, “The Third Dancer”, “The Wife's Dreaming Dogs”, “We've Been Leaving Since the Tavern of the Night's Darkness”, “The Scarlet Letter Corps” and so on. Several have been published in simplified Chinese.