In Song Zhiyu's youth, a heavy rain began in the summer when he was 18 years old.
Acquired sensorineural hearing loss dragged her into a sea of gradually losing her voice. To her, the world is like the rainy season that lasts all year round, and the sound becomes a reflection in the water, blurry, distorted, and out of reach.
The first time I met Lin Zhou was in the university library.
A sudden rainstorm came that evening. Lin Zhou hurriedly ran to the eaves to take shelter from the rain and found that a person was already standing there. The girl was holding a book and was fascinated by it, completely unaware that someone was watching her next to her. Lin Zhou followed her gaze and looked over - Sanmao's "The Rainy Season Will Never Come Again".
The title of the book really suits the occasion. She thought.
Lin Zhou somehow made no sound and just stood quietly aside. Until the girl finally noticed something, raised her head, and slowly moved her eyes from the pages of the book into her eyes.
Lin Zhou always remembered that evening later. Thinking of the girl's slightly raised corners of her mouth and her sparkling eyes, she felt that the endless rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River did not seem so humid.
She began to enter Song Zhiyu's world.
The words written on the palms, the exaggerated lip shapes, the sign language I specially learned, the clumsy but sincere simple drawings...
In the crowd of friends, they expressed their hidden love with silent gestures to their heart's content.
Until the poisonous rumor struck - "Lin Zhou, what are you doing hanging out with a deaf person all day long?" Song Zhiyu hated his "difference" for the first time. In order to protect Lin Zhou, she said the most hurtful words word by word.
"You and I are not from the same world."
Their story comes to an abrupt end.
Lin Zhou went abroad for graduate school and chose speech and hearing rehabilitation; Song Zhiyu stayed in the small town and became a teacher in a special school. Between them was a rain that seemed to never stop.
Many years later, Lin Zhou was already a well-known auditory rehabilitation therapist in the industry, and a charity lecture brought her back to her hometown. Under the stage, Song Zhiyu sat quietly, just like before. During the final Q&A session, the microphone was passed to her.
She stood up slowly, her whole body seemed to be gilded by the sunlight. Under everyone's gaze, he silently "said" something in sign language. The volunteer on the side was about to translate, but Lin Zhou raised his hand to stop him. She understood.
"Lin Zhou, the rain has stopped here."
Concept: If the world is a rainy season all year round, then she is the only sunshine in the rain
