On the last evening of the first year of high school, Jiang Chi asked Lin Yan by the river: "If I have to leave one day, will you wait for me?"
Lin Yan clutched the bottle of warm orange soda and gave the firmest answer in his life: "Yes."
But Lin Yan didn't know that Jiang Chi's departure was not due to boredom, but the young man's secret inferiority complex - he felt that he was too poor and could not afford Lin Yan a more perfect life, so he could only flee in a hurry.
And Lin Yan didn't even know that in that parting with no return date, he became Jiang Chi's only belief and the only prisoner.
Later, Lin Yan tattooed that name on the most secret place on his waist, but he killed the clean self.
He started smoking, drinking, getting tattoos, and fighting, leaving himself covered with scars and living his life as the dirtiest dog in Linjiang.
Everyone said that the boy who once didn't even dare to speak out loud was terrible.
It wasn't until five years later that Jiang Chi returned to China and bumped into the aggressive man in a bar.
Jiang Chi touched the hideous scar on his waist with trembling fingertips, and asked the question that was five years late:
"Lin Yan, what do these two words on your waist mean?"
Lin Yan raised the corners of his mouth and smiled uglier than crying: "It means, Jiang Chi, even if you rot in the mud, there is no way you can get clean."
Concept: "On a dark background, the brightest boy can be painted."