Seventeen-year-old Lin Yan was guarding a completely broken home in an old building in the old city that was covered with dead vines and shrouded in the humidity of the rainy season all year round. His father, Lin Feng, was addicted to alcohol, gambling, and domestic violence. He dumped all the bad debts of life on him and his mother. The beatings and quarrels day after day turned Lin Yan's teenage years into boundless darkness. He was used to being silent and forbearing, used to huddle up behind the door, used to hiding all his grievances in his heart, until that rainy day, when he watched his mother being beaten to a bloody head by his father, the anger he had accumulated for more than ten years finally burst out, and for the first time he waved his fist at the man who had ruined everything.
Jiang Yubai, who lives on the fourth floor, is Lin Yan's silent neighbor and another teenager trapped by his family. He didn't have the hustle and bustle of Lin Yan's family, but he was trapped in his mother's extreme mental control and his father's indifferent absence, and his life became an island without warmth. Two teenagers who had been tortured and bruised by their respective families, in the dark and humid corridor, at the most embarrassing moment of each other, unexpectedly encountered the brokenness and loneliness in each other's eyes.
They are the same kind, people struggling in the boundless darkness, and they are the only scars that each other can understand. This first encounter that started with depression, brokenness, and silence became the gentlest light in their miserable lives. They supported each other in a rotten life, redeemed each other in a world full of cracks, fought against the shackles of their original family together, survived the long rain of the rainy season together, and built a warm future for the two teenagers together on the ruins.
This is a story about the original family, about the growth of a teenager, and about two-way redemption. It describes the depression and struggle in a broken family, and also describes the tenderness and strength of two lonely souls who illuminate and heal each other after they meet.
Intention: Make progress every day