A Thousand Years of the Same Day

Wu Chen has spent a thousand years trapped inside a single day, July 7, 2020. Every night at midnight the clock resets and the streets put themselves back exactly as they were, and he has lived the same hours so many times that loneliness has become second nature. Then, one rainy day, a stranger with a blue umbrella looks at him with neon in her smiling eyes and says it’s the first time they’ve met.