In the third year after Shen Zhiyu suffered from depression, a person was born in his mind.
The real world is always gray. The noisy voices in class, the petty discussions of classmates, and the empty room made him breathless. He is afraid of talking to others and prefers to huddle in corners and close himself off.
Unable to find comfort for a long time, his hypocrisy created a savior for him.
Only he can see Pei Zhiyan.
Pei Zhiyan would sit by his window late at night, softly comforting his broken emotions, and patiently telling him when he was self-denying that he deserved to be liked. When I feel sad and cry, I will reach out and hug him. He makes up for all the tenderness missing in reality.
Song Ci is the only friend who is willing to get close to him in reality, but he is the only one who cannot see this person who appears out of thin air.
Others only saw him talking to the air, dazed and talking to himself.
Only Shen Zhiyu stubbornly believed that this love really existed.
He relied on this love he fabricated out of thin air to survive countless nights of tearing himself apart.
But he always understood.
This companionship, from beginning to end, only existed in his own closed corner. It was a phantom he weaved for himself.
When one day he slowly comes out of his depression and his assumptions dissipate, that person will completely disappear without leaving any trace.
Intent: When people are stuck in a spiritual abyss with nowhere to turn for help, they will create a fictional lover in their hearts as a way of self-salvation. Pei Zhiyan is not a hallucination, but another version of Shen Zhiyu who split off in a desperate situation. He entrusted the tenderness, preference and confidence he longed for into a concrete person, and was trapped in his closed corner to heal himself. This imaginary love is not only a cage that traps him, but also a life-saving straw that keeps him alive. When the depression slowly heals, the imaginary lover disappears, which means that he finally learns to embrace himself and accept himself. Salvation is never brought by others. What really saves Shen Zhiyu is himself who has never given up in his heart.