Everyone in Linyuan No. 1 Middle School knew that there was a person in Class 3 of Grade 2 who couldn't speak.
Shen Tingxi doesn't talk or socialize, and her presence is as low as a pot of green radish in the corner of the classroom. The classmates sympathized with her, the teachers were used to her, and everyone thought she would probably be like this for the rest of her life.
Until she was arranged to sit next to Gu Yanci.
Gu Yanci, the only son of the Gu family, the richest man in Linyuan, and Bai Yueguang, the daughter of all the girls in the school. He has top grades, has a cold personality, is polite to everyone, and is not close to anyone. The last person who sat at the same table with him applied for transfer on the third day.
The whole school was waiting to see when Shen Tingxi would be kicked out.
But she wrote a line on his scratch paper:
"Ten years ago, I saw you being bundled into a van."
Gu Yanci was silent for a long time.
Then he wrote: "That's not me."
Shen Tingxi pretended to be unable to speak for ten years because she witnessed an accident at Wanghaitai when she was seven years old. She remembered the license plate number, the face of the kidnapper, and the moon-like birthmark on the wrist of the boy who was taken away. She didn't dare to speak because she was afraid that once she spoke out, the real child would be silenced.
But when she touched Gu Yanci's wrist and touched the birthmark, she realized that her ten years of silence might have been used in the wrong place from the beginning.
Gu Yanci was "retrieved" from the orphanage by the Gu family. Everyone said he was lucky to be able to find his biological parents after being abducted. Only he knows that he is not the real Gu Yanci. When he was seven years old, he was taken away by a strange couple and told that he would be called by this name from now on.
He didn't know where the real Gu Yanci was, whether he was dead or alive. All he knows is that every day he wakes up and plays another person.
Until that day, the captain of the basketball team from Linyuan Foreign Language Middle School next door came to Qinglan No. 1 Middle School as an exchange student. He stood in front of the bulletin board, looked at his name on the list, and smiled.
His name is Gu Yanli.
There was an old burn scar on the tiger's mouth of his left hand.
Three people, ten years of lies, and a life that was exchanged.
There are sketchbooks hidden in the old bookstore in Wutong Lane, the license plate number is engraved on the railing of the Wanghai Terrace, and Lu Zhaoye by the playground has an eagle tattooed on his collarbone - that evening ten years ago, there was more than one witness to the Wanghai Terrace.
When the silent one finally speaks, when the stand-in refuses to continue performing, when the boy whose life was stolen comes back to collect debt——
Who is the real Gu Yanci?
Old Wutong at No. 17 Wutong Lane knows all the answers.
Because ten years ago it saw everything, but it couldn't tell.
Intention: Everyone who chooses to be silent has a sea in his heart that needs to be heard. True courage is not to never be afraid, but to still choose to speak despite fear.