Introduction
The whole school knows that Mu Yinning is the impeccable "standard answer" - firmly ranked at the top of the grade, his words and deeds meet the expectations of teachers, he is a permanent example of praise on the teacher's desk, and he is "other people's children" in the mouth of parents. Even the footsteps in the corridor have a regular rhythm, as if youth should be perfect and step-by-step.
And Ji Muou is the sharpest "negative footnote" on campus. His unruly eyebrows, baggy school uniform, always carrying a lighter in his pocket, and the disciplinary notices that appeared on the bulletin board every now and then made him a detour for students. He was a concrete reference for "certain classmates" when criticized by teachers, and a vivid example of parents telling their children to "never follow suit." His youth was like a wild horse, running wildly against established rules.
The two people, who were supposed to be like parallel lines extending at both ends of the campus with no intersection, were forcibly bound due to an unexpected class relocation - Mu Yinning's desk was moved next to Ji Muou's.
When a good, well-behaved girl meets a rebellious and problematic school bully, the half-arm distance between the desks seems to be an entire dimension apart. The neat annotations on the homework book are adjacent to the scribbled draft paper. The sound of reciting in the early morning is intertwined with the sound of sleepy breathing in class. The completely different trajectories of youth quietly overlap in the classroom full of cicadas and chalk dust.
No one expected that this seemingly incompatible encounter would quietly rewrite each other's life trajectories in the collision and testing day after day. She saw in him the freedom and enthusiasm outside the rules, and he found the light and direction in the chaos in her eyes. It turned out that under those appearances defined by labels, there was hidden longing and tenderness that had not been seen.
Perhaps the most unexpected encounter in youth is that you broke my established track, and I gentled your unyielding edges. Amid prejudice and misunderstanding, we created our own exclusive chapter.
Concept: Beyond labels in youth, two-way healing
