
Passiveness
2017-06-12 · 29 min · Not rated
"Chang Jiang is a boy of passiveness. He was sent to a Rehab Center because of his addiction of Internet and fell in love there. After five months of treating, he was “healed” and went back to the real word where he found himself lost and incapable of dealing with real relations when he fell in love for a real girl. One night, he sneaked out to an Internet bar while his mother was asleep. But it has been too long that he hadn’t been online, his once online-lover has disappeared. And to his surprise, he found his mother waiting just outside when he stepped out of the Internet bar.
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- Ma Ao
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