1. Story introduction
Xu Zhiwei, a poor girl from a mountain village in southern Anhui, who lost her father when she was young and desperately lacked love, entered college with a pure and humble secret love. She has a pure mind and a cowardly and forbearing personality. She hides all tenderness and sincerity in her eyes and carefully looks up to the dazzling Shanghai rich man Chen Yu.
Chen Yu has lived a prosperous and smooth life since he was a child. Out of youthful curiosity and boring temptation, he deliberately and gently seduces the ignorant and simple Xu Zhiwei. He accurately grasped her weakness of lack of love, lack of security, and desire to be cherished. He paved the way for her with gentle steps and made affectionate promises every sentence, making her completely fall in love and give her all his sincerity.
After a short period of false tenderness, Chen Yu's experience ended and he quickly and coldly withdrew without explaining, breaking up, or taking responsibility. He turned around and had an ambiguous relationship with a well-matched rich girl, completely ignoring Xu Zhiwei.
Xu Zhiwei, who had no one to rely on and was extremely panicked, suffered a physical and mental breakdown. She had an unexpected miscarriage on a cold winter rainy night. She was bleeding heavily and was on the verge of death and was taken to the hospital by a passerby. In order to preserve her reputation and not break her mother's heart, she used sick leave from "chronic gastritis" to cover up all the tragic scars, and endured the trauma of surgery, permanent physical loss, and the pain of losing her son alone.
In a desperate situation, the kind and honest local boy Zhou Ming and his mother gave her the only warmth of fireworks in the world. When Zhou's mother learned of her secret pain, she silently felt sorry for her and took care of her with the empathy of a woman for half her life, which became her only salvation in the dark years.
The story finally reaches the ultimate tragedy of reality: the evildoer has a bright future, a glorious life, and no guilt; the girl who was simply seduced bears the root of a lifelong disease, regrets about infertility, and a broken youth, and retreats to her homeland in the mountains to spend the rest of her life in peace and solitude, forever pregnant with embers.
This is a real-life campus tragedy with class inequality, sincerity gambling for entertainment, and gentleness as a sharp knife. It reveals the most silent, cruel, and unexplainable coldness of human nature in youth.
2. Character introduction
1. Xu Zhiwei (female protagonist)
• Origin: Wannan mountain village, single-parent family, fatherless since childhood, poor family
• Personality: Quiet and gentle, extremely lack of love, low self-esteem and sensitive, tolerant and kind, extremely simple
• Core character: clean and pure, never favored, others can bet everything with a little gentleness
• Experience: Being deliberately seduced with a humble secret love, wrongly paying true love, unexpected miscarriage, permanent disease in the body, leaving the shadow of child loss and physical defects for life
• Ending: Return to his hometown town, with a cold personality, lonely all his life, and live the rest of his life alone with the scars that no one knows about.
2. Chen Yu (male protagonist/villain)
• Origin: A well-off family in Shanghai, had a smooth life since childhood, and was admired by many stars.
• Personality: Gentle and decent on the outside, relaxed and dazzling on the outside, cold and selfish on the inside, bored and curious, and without any sense of responsibility
• Core character: The campus boy, whose life is empty and empty, using the sincerity and youth of a pure girl as a pastime and trial
• Experience: Deliberately seducing a poor heroine who has a crush on him, experiencing the taste of love and then silently abandoning her. He has no idea or care about her collapse, miscarriage, and pain.
• Ending: Graduate successfully, go to Shanghai for a bright future, fall in love smoothly, live a happy life, completely forget this hurtful past, and live without guilt for the rest of your life.
3. Zhou Ming (goodwill male supporting role)
• Origin: ordinary local family, parents run a street restaurant
• Personality: Honest and gentle, clean and pure, kind-hearted, and sincere in treating others
• Core character: the only warm and clean boy in the whole story, who has no intention of redemption, but gives the heroine the only kindness in the world
• Experience: Feeling pity for the female subject's poverty, taking the initiative to care for her and inviting her to dinner, without knowing the whole process, and simply being kind to strangers who are suffering.
4. Mother Zhou (supporting role of gentle redemption)
• Origin: Ordinary city woman, experienced hardship, lost her job in a garment factory, and opened a shop with her husband to make a living.
• Personality: Gentle and transparent, strong empathy, soft-hearted and kind-hearted, understands women's sufferings, has a strict and warm mouth
• Core character: The only adult in the whole story who sees through the pain, feels sorry for the heroine, and silently protects her
• Experience: I was extremely shocked after learning about the secret tragedy of the heroine. I sympathized with her suffering with maternal love and half-life experience. I boiled old hen soup every day to replenish her health, giving her the only warmth and shelter in a desperate situation.
Intent: Class gap creates emotional inequality, and the curiosity of the superior can ruin the life of a girl at the bottom.