Lin Shen is a promising psychology researcher, and Shen Mo is an art student who writes diaries using wounds.
The first time they met, he broke into her painting thorns on the glass late at night, and her wrists were covered with old scars.
The piece of paper she left behind said: "Pain is the only evidence of my existence."
He should have stayed away—there must be a wall between the researcher and the subject.
But he couldn't help but build a "pain dictionary" for her, using boxing, music, and temperature to teach her another grammar of finding scars.
Rumors began to grow and ethics review loomed.
She held the utility knife and asked him late at night:
"Are you healing me, or are you healing the same scarred woman in your memory?"
"Stay near me and you will lose your academic reputation."
Concept: A PhD in psychology and a self-injury art student completed the ultimate healing of a "redeemer's self-rescue" in the scars that were mirror images of each other.