Introduction to the novel "Chasing Light, and Darkness"
Seventeen-year-old Zhou Wan met a cold and gentle shadow in a convenience store at three o'clock in the morning - Lu Zhi. He is the first poor student in his grade and a night shift clerk who swallows expired food alone late at night. Two lonely souls quietly approached among the notes in the empty classroom, the half-meter distance under the umbrella, and the dim light of the dust in the old bookstore. His broken family, heavy debts, and mother's serious illness swallowed him up like an endless night; and she was the only glimmer of light within his reach, but she was pushed away by his own hands. A well-designed misunderstanding, a silent farewell, she flew to the other side of the ocean, and he sank into the abyss of reality.
Seven years later, Yuncheng.
She is a capable and professional psychiatrist, and he is a calm and taciturn project engineer. At the scene of the accident at the "Yunlu Art Center", they suddenly met again. He is the person responsible for the accident, burdened with new burdens and self-blame; she is the crisis intervention doctor, whose duty is to heal all trauma, including his. Conflicting identities, professional boundaries, and entanglements that have not been resolved for seven years make every conversation undercurrent. He was still used to burying all his emotions deeply and acting "stable" and "normal"; and through his flawless professional mask, she could see through it at a glance the young man who had never walked out of the rainy night.
This time, separated by the torrent of time and the devastation of reality, is she going forward with the lamp in hand to bring him back from the darkness; or can they build a bright future together based on the broken past?
Intent: This is a story about "redemption" and "reunion". It tells the story of how the pure but heavy love in youth settles over time, and how it experiences doubt, confrontation and final understanding under the complex rules of the adult world. When the "psychiatrist" meets her "most wanted to heal the past", when the "light" finally decides not to just illuminate, but to bravely walk into the core of the "darkness" - some scars can only be healed by each other; some roads must be walked side by side.