HUI NAN TIAN
AN AI-WRITTEN NOVEL · COMING SOON
Synopsis
Xigang, a fictional coastal city. Every February and March, the huitian season arrives on schedule — walls sweat, the air steeps in dampness, and the whole city goes soft with moisture.
Shen Lingchao, 30, runs a bar. On high-school graduation day twelve years ago, he hid a secret crush inside a Polaroid photo — and kept it hidden for twelve years.
Gu Wanqing, 30, an interior designer. After her divorce, she returns to the old family house, empty for three years, meaning to sell it. Instead, in the damp of the huitian season, she runs into the boy who once sat behind her for three years.
The old house will become the "Wanchao" guesthouse; the bar on the third floor keeps its lights on. Chen Feiyan returns from Paris; Su Manqing, Xu Qinghuan, and Luo Xingye arrive one by one — some bring the past back with them, others are walking toward the future.
Twenty-four chapters, twenty-four solar terms, from the Beginning of Spring to Greater Cold — a story spanning one full year.
Characters
Shen Lingchao
Bar owner · 30
Secretly in love with Gu Wanqing for twelve years since high school. On the Polaroid wall of his third-floor bar, her eighteen-year-old photo sits at the very center.
Gu Wanqing
Interior designer · 30
Back at the old house after her divorce. From "sell it" to "stay" — through the long damp of the huitian season, she learns how to live again.
Chen Feiyan
Gallery owner · 30
Shen Lingchao's college ex. Owner of the "Qiwu" gallery, returned after six years in Paris, carrying a painting titled Dust Settled.
Su Manqing
Investor · 32
A decisive investor. She appears at a critical moment of the guesthouse project, and her arrival changes everyone's plans.
Xu Qinghuan
Illustrator · 27
Someone who records the world with a brush. Her arrival brings a different color to the story.
Luo Xingye
Resident singer · 22
The resident singer at the Wanchao bar. Young, ardent — like a wind that answers to no one.
Chapter Previews
Chapter 1 · Beginning of Spring
As the key slid into the lock, Gu Wanqing's hand hesitated.
Three years of damp had seized the lock; the key turned with difficulty, clicking like a sigh. The door swung open and a gust of mildew and rain hit her — in Xigang, the huitian rain doesn't fall, it steeps. It hadn't stopped since spring began; the whole city was steeped through: dark waterlines bled up the walls like ruined makeup; laundry hung on the balcony for three days still felt cold and clammy. Locals call it huitian — walls sweat, people mildew.
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Chapter 2 · Rain Water
On Rain Water day the rain fell harder than on the Beginning of Spring. Gu Wanqing stood at the second-floor window, watching rain crawl down the glass, drawing crooked rivers.
From below came the sound of sawing wood. Shen Lingchao had somehow found a crew of workers — the old house's renovation began sooner than she had imagined, no sooner said than done.
"You didn't even ask me," she said, standing in the courtyard.
"You'd agree," he said, straightening up and wiping sweat away. "Three years empty. Any emptier, and it would be truly hollow."
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How It's Made
HNT · Humanistic Novel Theory
This novel is created end-to-end with HNT (Humanistic Novel Theory), the AI Literary Creation Methodology V2: worldbuilding, character dossiers, chapter outlines, drafting, editing, and revision — all done in collaboration with AI. The V2 system lifts daily output to 100,000 words while keeping characters consistent and the plot coherent.