Lin Zhiyao's life was a long and silent death.
When she was sixteen, she was a transfer student looking up at the stars in the mud, gentle and poor; Shen Tingxue was a lonely bird sitting next to her, surrounded by high walls.
It was the best time of their lives. The clasped fingers under the desk, the unspoken confession on the rooftop, and the promise so grand that it could defy the whole world——
"I'll take you away from now on."
But the blade of reality always cuts off the girl's muscles and bones slowly.
On one side is the seriously ill mother and the shaky livelihood that cannot be let go, on the other is the suffocating family shackles and the forced flight abroad.
Lin Zhiyao turned himself into ashes to support the weak sparks of life; Shen Tingxue lived like an empty shell in a foreign country, guarding undeliverable letters every morning.
It's not that they don't love, it's that their love is as light as a speck of dust in front of the overwhelming life.
The reunion took place many years later in the hospital corridor.
Lin Zhiyao, who used to want to save lives and heal the wounded, has become an ordinary person whose edges have been smoothed by life; Shen Tingxue, who used to long for freedom, finally returns with medals all over his body.
Their eyes met, there was no hysteria, only silence like stagnant water.
Shen Tingxue held her skinny hand tightly and repeated the promise ten years late in a trembling voice: "Zhiyao, I will take you away."
Lin Zhiyao just responded softly: "It's too late."
It was the last touch of darkness before dawn, and they were not able to see the sunrise together after all.
Intention: We once thought that love could split mountains and seas, but later we discovered that just resisting the trivialities and sufferings of life has exhausted all our strength. This book is about how two girls clumsily protected the last glimmer of light in each other's souls in the torrent called "reality."