Wood Dye
木染
by Raw Rice Was Delicious (生米曾好吃)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 29k Words
- Chapters
- 6
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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A sudden hexagram change broke the boundaries between two parallel worlds, and forcibly tied two seventeen-year-old boys who looked exactly the same but had completely opposite personalities to the same city and under the same roof. Mu Ran is the school bully that everyone avoids on this campus. My parents were away from home all the time, and I grew up alone. There was never any warmth or care in the empty house. He built a thick armor with irritability, rebellion, and indifference. He was tired of studying, skipped classes, and fought. He used the sharpest appearance to confront the world, and also concealed the loneliness deep in his bones. He is used to being misunderstood, abandoned, and framed at will. He has long believed that he will spend his whole life wandering alone in the darkness where no one cares. Bu Ran, from another stable and orderly world, is an extremely restrained, academically excellent student. He was born in a scholarly order, good at rules and gentleness, and lived a step-by-step life. He was calm, transparent, and righteous. He had never seen himself so scarred and full of edges and corners. His appearance was like a clean and gentle light that broke into the dull and chaotic life. When they first met, the two were incompatible with each other. Mu Ran finds him rigid and nosy, but does not find him rebellious and aggressive. The same classroom, the same desk, two identical figures, but they are full of collisions and alienation. Until a malicious frame-up, a silent guard, and a daily routine of getting along day and night, quietly melted each other's hard shell. Bu Ran silently defended his innocence, and when everyone doubted him, he firmly said "It's not him"; Mu Ran quietly put away his edge for him, began to try to listen to classes, do homework, and no longer faced the world in an extreme way. They don't understand vigorous confessions, and there is no over-the-top intimacy. All their cares are hidden in a bowl of hot noodles in the morning, an umbrella on a rainy day, a quietly handed note in class, and a silent companionship in the middle of the night. It turns out that they are souls of the same origin, the missing half of each other. One teaches him stability and being loved, the other gives him freedom and fireworks. From looking at each other with disgust, to feeling at ease in my heart. The unruly school bully finally has a place to go; the cold-blooded school bully finally has something to care for. The most ultimate salvation in this world is just—— In another world, I met the person who understood me best and wanted to protect me the most, my other self. Purpose: Mutual redemption