Lin Qihe entered college with the shadow of being bullied for three years from junior high school to high school. He was completely desperate for study, but he was addicted to the redemption and escape from the world of novels. He huddled on the edge of the crowd like a lonely crane, rejecting all good intentions. Shen Xinglan, the squad leader and literary club president who is as cold as a star but gentle to the bone, has shown his talent since childhood and skipped two grades in a row for two years (1 year in elementary school + 1 year in junior high school). Therefore, he is 3 years older than Lin Qihe but became his classmate in college. The two never met in high school, but Shen Xinglan hid in secret through school forums and anonymous letters. From chance encounters in the library, annotations on novel pages to tracing past events, the two are intertwined in words, scars and folds of time, and finally emerge from the abyss in a symbiotic manner. This is a journey of growth about self-acceptance, rebuilding trust and rekindling interest. It is also a scarred but uncompromising hymn to life.
Purpose: Using the dual lines of "dormant protection" and "self-awakening" to show how two teenagers illuminate each other in loneliness and trauma, interpreting that "salvation is not an instant rescue, but a gentle watch across time and space and the courage to break out of the cocoon."