When the assassin's edge meets the lines of scars,
When the belief that you must win hits the road of defeat.
Shen Tingting's e-sports career is a knife that is getting worn out day by day. The old injury on his left wrist, like the screen light in the training room in the early morning, became a pain that he couldn't turn off. The championship trophy is cooling in the display cabinet, and he is slowly and irreversibly falling into the dusk of a professional player.
Lin Fengyu's right hand has three scars that will not disappear, and a tampered truth about the accident. From a genius ace to a "waste", he spent a year staring at the most familiar and unfamiliar opponent in encrypted files and game videos - watching how Shen Tingting perfectly walked step by step towards the cliff where he had fallen.
So, with his broken hands and unsolved mysteries, he stepped into the territory of his old enemy as an analyst.
This is the story of two people living in the embers.
One is in pain, but pretends not to.
One has experienced pain, but has learned how to coexist with pain.
In the training room late at night, under the golden rain, on the battlefield where lies and truth are torn apart, they identify each other with their scars and piece together the whole with their incompleteness.
"When we're all on top," he said, "I'll tell you what I want to say now."
But love never waits for its peak.
It happens on the way down, when someone reaches out and says—
"I'll catch you."
"I love you in the afternoon when the scars are as transparent as cicada wings, in the corners where no one sees them, and in all the moments when I finally dare to admit that I feel pain too."
Intention:,