Time background: a modern city, a humid and rainy coastal city in the south. The story takes place in the city's key "Linjiang No. 1 Middle School" and subsequent university campuses. The time span is about five years from high school to before graduation from university.
Core characters:
Lin Zhixia: an introverted and sensitive literary boy who is good at writing poems and essays. His family is broken up, his mother died young, his father remarried, and he lives with his aunt. She looks thin and quiet, with often distant eyes, but she devotes all her tenderness to a very few people.
Cheng Yuan: The main player of the school basketball team, a sunny and cheerful "proud son of heaven", from a wealthy family, he seems to be capable of anything, but in fact he is burdened with the strict expectations of his father who "must inherit the family business". He was the first person to take the initiative to approach Lin Zhixia.
Core relationship: Lin Zhixia and Cheng Yuan met in the second year of high school. From misunderstanding and temptation to knowing each other and falling in love, they experienced the sweetness of campus love, the tearing of external pressure, family obstruction, and the struggle for self-identity, and finally came to an irreversible tragic ending.
Emotional tone: The early stage is sweet and sweet, interspersed with sharing an umbrella on a rainy day, notes in the corner of the library, and taking a long detour after evening self-study; in the middle and later stages, the plot gradually develops, with family interference, social prejudice, psychological pressure, misunderstandings and misses, and finally ends with the death of one party (BE).
Key images: blue iris (Cheng Yuan sends Lin Zhixia every year on his birthday), rain recording (listens to Lin Zhixia when he suffers from insomnia), unsent letter (Cheng Yuan's confession and apology to Lin Zhixia), rooftop (the place where the two had their first kiss and final farewell).
Intention: None