Gentle, deeply devoted top x gloomy, aloof bottom
Lin Chengyi x Zhuang Jinyu
At sixteen, Zhuang Jinyu returned from the hellish city of Barcelona to his mother's side. Eight years of separation had left him with a body covered in scars and a silence as deep as death. Like a canary with broken wings, he used cigarettes and self-harm to feel the warmth of existence, making “live until eighteen, then go to Camp Nou” his only reason to keep going.
His stepbrother, Lin Chengyi, was the quietest observer in their newly formed family. He witnessed the boy's obsession with candied hawthorn, his fear of cats, and his silent breakdowns in the dead of night. He confiscated the razor blades in the boy's pockets and took the cigarette from between his lips. With a tender “good boy,” he fiercely carved a ray of light into the boy's desolate life.
From their first glance at the airport to that tear-soaked kiss amid the roar of a hundred thousand people at Camp Nou; from the hoarse, broken “Brother...” to the vow engraved on a ring, “L'amor etern.” When the sea breeze of Barcelona crossed eight thousand kilometers to reach Qingyang, the withered branches did more than sprout again. They grew into a whole spring.
Theme: A story about youth and healing
