[Two male leads]➕️ [Both are each other’s only one]➕️ [Bad ending]➕️ [Angst]➕️ [Anti-drug enforcement]
[Rationalist top]✖️ [Bottom with Cotard’s syndrome]
He has Cotard’s syndrome and insists that he is a lucid corpse. His world has been reduced to shades of gray. Being alive is a System bug, and his heartbeat is a programmed function.
The other is a ball of blazing fire, smashing through the rules of his lifeless world to become his one anomaly, his most stubborn error code.
“In the autumn seven years from now, you’ll see one of my paintings at the Tongcheng art exhibition. That will be the signal.”
Before Yun Su disappeared, he left behind this prophecy. Then he evaporated like a drop of water beneath the sun.
“Welcome to the game, my executor.”
Seven years later, the prophecy comes true. At the exhibition, Bi Zhifeng encounters the painting titled “Rotting Marsh” again, and reunites with Yun Su, the mastermind behind it all. Five bizarre, intricately connected cases, the spread of “Painting the World,” every clue points to his pale, fragile lover.
The further Bi Zhifeng investigates, the more afraid he becomes. He thinks he is closing in step by step, unaware that he is walking perfectly into the game Yun Su has spent seven years laying out. Yun Su is not only the culprit he must hunt down, but also the one who personally pushed the desperate toward the abyss. And when the final truth is revealed amid the flames, Bi Zhifeng finally understands: this game was never about winning or losing.
It is a willing sacrifice by a pawn, the death the player planned for himself, and the proof of a “dead man’s” twisted way of living, offered up to the one he loves through his own destruction.
“Now my colors are clean. Bi Zhifeng, take this ‘mistake’ of mine with you and keep living your life”
