Su Yan shed many tears in his life.
What slipped silently at the corner of the stairs, what I bit the back of my hand under the quilt to hold back, what flowed quietly in the middle of the night when no one saw me, what I swallowed mixed with blood after being bullied, what I couldn't flow out behind my mother's retreating back. He thought some of the saltiness was destined to be swallowed alone.
But Lin Yichen taught him: "When it hurts, you don't have to endure it." They licked each other's wounds in a gorgeous cage full of cracks and became each other's salvation.
The smell of whiskey in the attic late at night, all the unspeakable things, broke through at that moment.
Love is redemption and original sin.
When feelings that shouldn't arise break through in the middle of the night, can two people trapped in "should" break free from the shackles, wipe away the bitterness for each other, and finally taste that drop of tears called happiness?
