Pianist x Little Fox | Blindness and Sight Restored | From Bickering to Devotion | Soapy, Angsty, and Satisfying HE | He traced her features with his hands, then remembered her face with his eyes for the rest of his life.
Crooked, oversized letters had been spray-painted on the wall:
"Hey, blind guy, play 'Für Elise' for us, will you?"
The signature was a snarling rabbit.
He couldn't see the light, but he heard her voice.
He couldn't see the light, but he heard every note she played.
When she was thirteen, Shen Zhiwei wrote a tune no one had ever heard on a yellowed sheet of music, signing it with a crooked five-pointed star. Ten years later, she skipped class by climbing over a wall and blundered into the world of Xie Heng, a piano professor at A University. The man was blind and taciturn, yet his hands were more precise on the keys than anyone else's.
She thought he couldn't see her.
But he remembered the rhythm of her steps, the curve of her left lip when she lied, and how her breathing deepened when she secretly wiped away her tears. He traced her brow, the bridge of her nose, and the curve of her lips with his fingertips, drawing her first portrait in the dark.
Later, he said, "I want to remember what you look like. If I ever get better, I want to be the first to recognize you."
This is a journey toward each other, told through sound, touch, and countless notes played on the piano.
She is the star that fell onto the piano keys, and he waited in the darkness for ten years just to catch her.
