2026 Floating World

With international tensions high and industries downsizing across the board, making a living grows ever harder. Chen An works as a laborer in a Suzhou warehouse, scrimping and saving to support his wife Su Qing, who works far away. The remote mountain factory area is isolated and lonely, with tacit temporary couples everywhere. Su Qing, influenced by her environment, crosses lines offline with a companion; late at night, she hides in her dorm, obsessed with live-streaming rooms, spending lavishly to please a male streamer. The factory workers, the online streamer, and the husband are strangers to each other, each hiding the truth. Chen An, giving his all in one-sided devotion, is cut off from all secrets by distance, and in the trivial hardships, the story captures the fractured emotions and survival struggles of ordinary people in this era. — Description from novelcodex.org