He built a transparent dome and locked the only light into his arms.
Gu Chenzhou's world was originally exquisitely dark, until Lin Qingxiao broke in with freedom. She is the dawn that he dare not hope for, and is all his source of heat and breath.
The first half of the story is the ultimate push-and-pull between the vicious-tongued boss and the wild artist. He took care of everything for her while feeling disgusted, and she pulled him out of the abyss while bickering. Everyone thought it was a redemption fairy tale.
But when love turns into fear, protection becomes imprisonment. He replaced the window of her studio, filtered out her "restless" friends, and used gentle guilt to induce her to cut her wings. She watched herself change from a soaring eagle to a caged bird, and clearly felt the suffocating love.
The second half is a silent drowning. There was no quarrel, just her increasingly dim eyes and the unfinished painting "Drowning in Light". When she finally walked towards the deep sea, her last words were as gentle as a knife: "Your love is so bright, so bright that I have no shadow to breathe."
And he was actually imprisoned after her death - spending the rest of his life acting out his affection and living in her tampered memory. It wasn't until death came that he saw the truth in the illusion: what they drowned in was never the darkness, but the light that was too warm but couldn't breathe that they desperately gave each other.
Open this book and you will witness with your own eyes how the deepest love can build the most exquisite prison.
