[Dual male leads | Dual couples / BE aesthetic / names whose meanings become ironic prophecies
| Sunshiny depression + a story of failed salvation]
The story begins with four candy wrappers and ends in the same funeral home.
They sat together in elementary school, reunited in high school, and went on to very different kinds of hell in college.
One couple is a “sunshine type” depressive and his little sun. They go on sweet dates by day; at night, one cries until he faints in a graveyard while the other kneels before Buddha until his knees turn blue and purple.
Another couple goes “from a precious treasure in the palm of his hand to a weed by the roadside,” alongside his little daisy. One sells himself to pay for medical bills; the other signs a critical-condition notice outside an operating room. In the end, they part forever in a filthy alley.
The sweetness is real, and so is the pain.
In the darkness of a haunted house, they exchange a look that says, “I might not have a happy ending.” On a rooftop, they vow to “be together forever.” Yet in the frenzy of online abuse, one is cursed as “a spoiled rich kid dancing on his own grave,” while the other is rumored to be “the campus heartthrob who sold himself to climb the ladder.” Trending topics and online polls push them step by step toward the cliff.
This is a story about how a “name” can become a curse.
Yu Sihuai finally “squandered his life,” with his own life.
Xu Yigui finally “returned as one,” by following him.
The “blank space” in Shen Yubai’s name was splashed with bloodstains that could never be washed away.
The “hope” in Sheng Xi’s name shattered into starlight that could never be pieced back together.
They met by the same sea and drowned in the same kind of love.
When the tide erases the four names written side by side in the sand
The so-called BE aesthetic is nothing more than:
“I give you all my blessings, and keep the ending for myself.”
“Toward the sea for the rest of my life, with no lights on the way home.”
