When she used philosophical propositions to tear off his perfect mask,
I don't know that the ring mark on the ring finger is the shackles of political marriage.
Jin Huaizhi remembers the seam of the classroom window that leaked air.
The brown-haired girl who dared to look directly at him asked:
"Are you counting shadows in the cave, too?"
In the piano room of the school anniversary party, Liszt's "Dream of Love" melted into the dusk,
He bit her earlobe and warned: "Smart girls should close their eyes."
Instead, she stuffed Nietzsche's Declaration of the Abyss into the inner pocket of his suit.
Three years later, on a rainy night in Oxford, Shen Zhaoning received an anonymous envelope——
The yellowed court records contained evidence of his father's unjust case.
And a medicine-stained note:
"Return to the abyss that will judge you."