Shen Shuhuan (GL)
World-weary Hong Kong socialite × Time-traveler you In 1986 Hong Kong, she picked up a "stray cat" in an alleyway on a rainy night. "Auntie Fang, look, there really is a stray cat here." (Auntie Fang, look, there really is a stray cat here.) Shen Shuhuan, 22 years old, the only daughter of a wealthy Southeast Asian merchant, a dropout from a British girls' school, a smoker for seven years, and bored for twenty-two years. Her daily routine: sleeping during the day, wandering at night, and playing with her lighter at three in the morning while waiting for Auntie Fang's ginger soup tangyuan. She treats life as a playground, measuring everything by how "interesting" it is, utterly uninterested in this world—until that rainy night. She picked up a person from the twenty-first century. An ordinary corporate slave who couldn't even bring themselves to buy health insurance, waking up to find they had fallen from 2026 onto the streets of 1986 Hong Kong. Drenched to the bone, penniless, with the only thing of value being a blacked-out smartwatch on their wrist. "Start working tomorrow to pay off your debt. Car fare, lodging, hot water, dry cleaning—you wet my car seats." (Start working tomorrow to pay off your debt. Car fare, lodging, hot water, dry cleaning—you got my car seats wet.) Just like that, she became her "creditor." Maid uniforms, lace headbands, and a bizarre daily routine in a Repulse Bay mansion. She is always leaning against the doorframe with a cigarette in her mouth, sizing her up with those light brownish almond eyes, saying "What a coincidence," and then leaving the things she needs where she is bound to pass by. One is a wealthy young lady dying of boredom. One is a space-time refugee abandoned by her era. She doesn't know where she came from, but she is the first real surprise in her twenty-two years of life. She doesn't know why she is curious about her, but she knows—there is no road home for her in 1986 Hong Kong. This is a story about "boredom" and "interest." A story about two strangers, in the wrong time and the wrong place, finding each other. Image source 🍠684033180