You Illuminate Me and Turn Me into Light
你照亮我,让我变成光
by A Lonely Guest in Heaven and Earth (天地孤客)
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 22k Words
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Synopsis
Twenty-two-year-old Lin Wanxing hid in the Ginkgo Corridor of the Shitu Ancient Books Restoration Center, clutching the diagnosis certificate and counting the ninety days left to live. She is an illustrator who is about to be crushed by fate. Her hands are so trembling that she can't hold a charcoal pencil. She only has one rain left in her life. He was an ancient book restorer who guarded old paper and time. He was cold and taciturn, and his fingertips were steady enough to mend a century-old fragment of a book, but he made an exception for her. The medicine bottles without labels were put away by him quietly, the dark blue thermos cup always kept hot water, the glass jars were filled with colorful fruit candies, and even the clumsy cold jokes were all a fire he had learned to make for her. He said that if a book is broken, it can be repaired, and so can people. With the gentleness of repairing books, he accompanied her on her last journey and treasured her autumn properly. And she burned out her own light, so that this person who guarded loneliness finally learned to embrace the world. "Thank you for making my autumn not so cold." "I have received your light, now it is my turn to be your light." Purpose: This work uses the ninety-day encounter and companionship between the terminally ill illustrator Lin Wanxing and the cold ancient book restorer Shen Ci as the core clue. In the cruelty of fate and the brevity of life, it explores the ultimate meaning of love and companionship, interprets the warm core of two-way redemption, and conveys the power of life that can be wrapped in gentleness and illuminated by light even in a desperate situation in life. In the story, although Lin Wanxing only has ninety days left in his life, due to this encounter, he breaks away from the fear of death and has a hot and cherished last time; Shen Ci's closed heart is broken by Lin Wanxing's brightness and tenacity, and he walks out of the loneliness of holding on to time and old paper, and learns love, companionship and expression. The encounter between the two is an embrace of incompleteness and tenderness - Shen Ci protects Lin Wanxing's last dignity with the delicacy of book repairing, and fights the coldness of fate with clumsy tenderness; Lin Wanxing is like a ray of light, illuminating Shen Ci's lonely world, allowing him to understand the weight of the freshness and warmth of life. This emotion has nothing to do with the vigorousness, but in the company of the long flowing water, they complete each other's redemption. At the same time, the work also expresses the acceptance of the incompleteness of life and the love for life through the echo of "repairing books" and "cultivating the heart": paper will break and life will pass away, but gentle companionship and sincere love can make the incomplete time complete and give the short life a thickness beyond its length. After Lin Wanxing left, Shen Ci brought her expectations to live as a light and saw the world for her, which gave this emotion an eternal continuation - love and warmth will never die with the passing of life, but will be passed on in another way, becoming a light that will never go out in the long night.