"Do you love the light, or its shadow?"
Rain is the sky's torn candy wrapper; love is a string of prayer beads rusted into the cracks of our bones. We are trapped in the storeroom of childhood, counting glass stars that will never bloom.
In the orphanage's rusted storeroom, seven-year-old Qi Xiaxia barged into the life of nine-year-old Cheng Guang like a butterfly suddenly fluttering in.
Fifteen years later, they meet again. He is the school's gentle, refined art teacher, his white shirt dusted with incense ash from Qing Tan Temple; she is an investigative reporter carrying a camera.
A shattered glass candy jar awakens in the evidence room, and a sandalwood prayer bracelet reveals a blood-red code spanning fifteen years.
When her camera points at the cracks deep in her lover's eyes, she must choose between her journalistic ideals and personal bias: will she handcuff the young man who crawled back from hell, or embrace the lonely shadow that has waited for her in the storeroom all these years?
A mutual salvation that begins in childhood innocence and ends in punishment for sin,
A cruel fairy tale spent half a lifetime wandering between candy-wrapper butterflies and sandalwood prayer beads.
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