Triple Door

Triple Door is the first novel by Chinese writer Han Han. The novel sold more than two million copies, making it one of "China’s best-selling novels of the past two decades" according to Evan Osnos in 2011. Content Lin Yuxiang is a third year middle school student in a city near Shanghai. He belongs to a literary tuition circle linked to the school. Their teacher Ma Debao is an old acquaintance of Yuxiang's father. His material is decidedly inadequate, and his didactically inconclusive lessons cause several members to leave. To try to revive his students' attention, Ma Debao organizes a trip to the ancient city of Zhouzhuang. The students are divided into groups. Lin Yuxiang joins his friend Luo Tiancheng and class representative Shen Xi'er. While visiting the tourist area of the city, crossed by canals and bridges, Shen Xi'er spots her friend, the beautiful Susan. Susan attends their school and has a foreign name because she lived in Canada. Susan immediately unleashes a competition between the two boys, who until now had declared themselves disinterested in girls.