When I was sixteen, my world was shattered into three pieces - my mother's hesitant concern, my father's phone calls that could never be answered, and the boy who was shooting alone on the basketball court. Lin Jianxia used to use old notebooks to collect all the unspeakable words. In the corner of the library of a key high school, on the way home from school where the streetlights cast long shadows, and at the dinner table where her parents were relatively silent, she accumulated those "I'm fine" lies like collecting fallen leaves. Until that evening self-study night, the note handed over by Shen Yubai said "Don't be too hasty". These three words burned through her disguise. They are equally good at silence - he learned to take care of other people's emotions due to his parents' divorce, and she was accustomed to self-denial due to her family of origin. When the daisy bookmark in the old book became a secret token, and when the encounter in the library became a tacit agreement, Lin Jianxia felt for the first time that perhaps loneliness could be shared. But misunderstandings come faster than confessions. Her mother's blame, the sudden disappearance of Shen Yubai, and the disclosed notebook push her back into the abyss of self-isolation again. There is no savior in this youth, only two scarred people, clumsily learning how to pick up their broken selves in the evening wind. When Lin Jianxia finally wrote in her published article, "Those things that broke me, eventually became cracks of light," she finally understood that real growth is not about being saved by someone, but about learning to compromise gently with the world. This is a story about brokenness and self-healing. Just like the evening breeze on a summer night, there is tenderness hidden in pain, and light in regret.
Intent: The brokenness and self-healing of growing pains, the silent reconciliation of the original family, the regret and relief of secret love, the reconstruction of self-identity, redemption is not the salvation of others, but the gentle compromise between oneself and the world.