Drowning

There are two waters in Wen Zhiyi's life. One is the swimming pool where my mother drowned when she was ten years old. One was the punishment that her father repeatedly threw her in for the next five years. She learned to hold her breath in the water and to smile perfectly on the shore. She locked up her true self and let "Perfect Wen Zhiyi" live for her. Everyone loves her. No one knows her. There are two things in Lu Zhao's life. One is that he is deaf and cannot hear the sounds of the world. One thing is silence, he never explains himself. He was called "deaf," looked down upon, and bullied. He learned not to explain, and he also learned not to get close. When they met, neither of them expected that the other would be their shore. He was deaf, but he heard her unspoken "Help me". She was perfect, but her cracks were revealed for the first time in front of him. "You don't have to be perfect," he said. "I'm listening," he said. She gave him cochlea, hoping he could hear the world. The day he removed his cochlea, she knew—— What I fear most is not drowning, but being heard and thrown into the water again. But this time, he didn't leave. He stood there and said over and over again: "I'm listening. I'm listening to everything you say." This is a story about drowning, masks, and a man who finally dares to go ashore. It is also the story of two drowning people who learn to breathe in each other's arms. --- Concept: She drowned in water for 15 years, and he was the first person waiting for her on the shore.