When top student Lin Shuyue broke transfer student Gu Chenzhou's headphones, she also broke the layers of scars on his wrists. In a key high school in a rainstorm, a math genius who is burdened by a debt crisis and a gloomy young man carrying a faded red rope are tied together by fate due to an accident in the blood-stained examination room.
He always wiped the burnt Chinese knot late at night, but she recognized the same blood red in the debt collector's graffiti; he calculated the period of her nosebleeds as accurately as solving a sequence problem, and she discovered that the antidepressants he took were from the same batch as the pill bottles in the drawer before his father disappeared. Under the century-old sycamore tree, water-soaked Olympiad scrolls and faded red ropes intertwined into a network. The self-inflicted scars hidden under the school uniforms, the fluoxetine bottles in the lockers in the early morning, and the old photos burned in the blind spots of the surveillance cameras all showed cruel reflections in the rain.
In this game of youth, whoever figures out the answer to the other's secret first will be stung by the truth first - when Gu Chenzhou puts the ice-cold Coke to stop the bleeding on the tip of her nose, Lin Shuyue finally understands that some encounters are not accidental, but wounds that have accumulated for ten years and fester into flowers in the heavy rain.
Reader comments
I probably know why so few people have read it. When I first read it, time and space were intertwined. I had no idea when and where it was talking about. As for what happened later, I didn't know. This four-star rating is considered supportive.
I probably know why so few people have read it. When I first read it, time and space were intertwined. I had no idea when and where it was talking about. As for what happened later, I didn't know. This four-star rating is considered supportive.