Was at the library today again, browsing through their collections of books, and I happened to land my eyes on a Chinese novel, can’t recall the full title now, but it has a “HOLIDAY” in the title. The novel was in the same novel series where it featured another famous short story, “Calling You” which was made into a movie (I liked that movie, even though the ending was bittersweet)
The book contained 2 short stories, but I had only managed to finish the first one today. It had made a deep impression on me and I just wanted to write it down somewhere. The title of the short story is 幸福宝贝 which roughly translate to “Treasure of Happiness”, it features a gloomy and anti-social protagonist which has found a cheap place to rent for his college life, seems like a good deal right? Yeah, except for the past that the land owner has conveniently left out: A university student was murdered in that exact house just 3 weeks earlier…