Gu Liyuan, known as the Abyss Gazer in Qingteng Middle School, always wears sharp-cut black uniforms with barbed steel finger tigers hidden in the cuffs. When he found Jiang Xin soaked in the equipment room for the 17th time, the cherry blossom-shaped light pink birthmark on the girl's collarbone was oozing with blood drops - it was the unclean mark left by being pressed on the broken glass last Thursday.
For Jiang Xin, who suffers from affective synesthesia, the world was originally a puzzle with 72 shades of gray. Until Gu Liyuan covered her tearful eyes with his blood-stained palms, the vicious curses of the bullies suddenly turned into indigo raindrops. They feed calico cats on the deserted rooftop late at night. Behind the rusty iron door is a little prince with lipstick writing on it, and on page 43 is a fever-reducing patch soaked in mint.
The most violent protection is often the most like harm. They exchanged fate at the moment when the sulfuric acid bottle shattered. The last scene Jiang Xin saw was Gu Liyuan's disfigured right cheek with a bloody cherry blossom, and the boy clutching the red-stained hearing aid. The sound of her heart stopping in the autopsy room was very similar to the rustling sound of a stray cat on the rooftop eating mint candy wrappers that year.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
