I, Lin Yue, a nurse from Qingyang Township, an over-empathic "emotional sponge".
Until I was in the storage room late at night and picked up a jasper caterpillar that lived on pain.
It's called Al. We signed the contract of "sharing the burden" - it shares my suffering with me; I also bear its pain.
From then on, the rural health station became my clinic, and my emotions became a disease that could be "cured".
I used it to comfort my mother who was suffering from postpartum depression, to resolve the grievances between brothers fighting over property, and to save young people who were pushed to the edge of spontaneous combustion by the workplace.
And my childhood sweetheart, the village official Chen Yu, whose trousers were stained with mud, would just silently tighten the blood-stained red rope on my wrist every time I was on the verge of collapse, saying: "Hold on to it when you want to fall, and tie the other end to my life."
I thought the days would be like this, spent in secret healing and ordinary staying together.
Until the "gods" symbolizing human original sin awakened one by one, until the cracks on Al's left wing oozed black pollution, until half of Chen Yu's arm withered to protect me, until that spotless woman asked with a smile: "Forgetting pain is the highest form of love, do you want to try it?"
I realized that the most powerful medicine to heal the world is never to eliminate darkness.
But on the edge of the abyss, we still choose to hold each other's bloody hands, and use all the pain and love that we don't want to forget to leave a glimmer of light called "balance" for this world.
Purpose: To explore the dynamic balance between light and darkness, pain and healing, humanity and divinity. Praising the imperfect souls who still choose to shine despite the cracks, it conveys the core value of "real strength is understanding where the darkness comes from and choosing to become the light."
