Some people use their childhood to heal their whole lives, and some people use their whole life to heal their childhood.
Xia Kui and Shen Yi both belong to the latter.
She is an island abandoned by love, sunk in gossip.
He is a trapped beast crawling out of hell, struggling with his mother's morbid hatred and regret.
With a fall, she cleared away all the pain and all traces of his existence.
So he retreated further, only daring to stay in the shadows, licking her wounds with his eyes, and crushing the maliciousness that came close to her with his fists.
Until she followed the ashes of memory and walked up to him, seeing his wounds hidden under the band-aid and the past under the burn scars.
"Shen Yi," her voice was very soft, "you are there too, right?"
That dark "there" that only we understand.
Two people who were broken by the world decided to pick up each other's pieces.
Even if the process is bloody.
Because we know that some light can only shine through from the deepest darkness.
Core highlights: Broken aesthetics · Atmospheric sadomasochism · Picking up each other · Healing scars
Intention: The deepest darkness is used to shine through the light; the most painful memory is used to let two broken people learn how to put each other back together completely.