Lin Guogao is the substitute chosen to sit on the shrine. She has no emotions and no one really cares about her. She just sat there, wearing washed white hunting clothes, waiting for the next dawn day after day.
Until the woman named Xu Zhen climbed up the stone steps.
She does not belong here, her clothes are modern, her smile is magnanimous, there is no awe in the eyes she looks at the gods, there is only something strange to the gods - gaze. Really, seriously, seeing someone's gaze.
"You're so pretty," she said.
The gods don't know what it means to look good, they don't know what it means to like, and they don't know what it means to say "this place will be uncomfortable when you are not here." Xu Zhenyi told her the same thing. The smell of pudding, the aroma of old books, and the warmth of getting along with each other, God slowly learned - learned to laugh, learned to step down from the shrine for the one he loves, learned to wear the clothes given by his lover, learned to say "Will you still come to see me?"
But gods cannot touch mortal hearts.
On the day she sank to the bottom of the sea, she was wearing a hunting coat given by her lover. She looked back and smiled. Very shallow, like moonlight falling on the water.
Xu Zhen knelt on the edge of the cliff, facing the sea, and said the last sentence:
"If we can't meet each other in the future, I hope you and I can meet again in our dreams."
Then she stood up and took a step forward.
Falling into the deep sea, into the arms of my lover.
Intention: Mutual redemption, never leave