In the eyes of classmate Xu Dusheng, Tao Song is the embodiment of perfection. He has a good family background, excellent grades, and dazzling self-confidence. The two gradually became close because they sat at the same table. Tao Song's humor, intelligence and delicacy deeply attracted Xu Dusheng, but she always kept aloof and avoided close friendship, just like an inaccessible island. It wasn't until Xu Dusheng took the initiative to walk towards her during a seat-changing incident that he briefly opened the door to her heart. However, after graduation, Tao Song gradually lost contact with him. When Xu Dusheng finally followed the traces to her real home. When she arrived at that crowded, messy place, which was completely different from the "high-end community" she described, she was shocked to discover that Tao Song had committed suicide due to cancer. The perfect life she carefully constructed turned out to be a disguise of loneliness that lasted for twenty years. Through the letters and memories left by Tao Song, a complex soul who longs to be loved but is afraid of reality, who pursues aura but is trapped in nothingness gradually emerges. The novel uses delicate writing to explore the identity anxiety, family pain and emotional alienation of contemporary youth. In the intertwining of warmth and cruelty, it explores the unspoken pain and love between truth and disguise, approach and escape.
Concept: The pressure from the outside world makes a girl learn to disguise, and is eventually swallowed up by the perfect mask she created.
