[A bookstore owner with psychogenic deafness and aphasia ✖️A "nosy" musician]
After his brother died, Wen Chu built himself a silent cage. Ten years.
He didn't listen. Don't tell. Don't go out. Guarding an old bookstore and a diary written for his younger brother, he planned to spend his whole life like this.
Ji Yu didn't say hello when he moved here. He put sticky notes on Wen Chu's flowerpots, gave him sound guides, repaired his gramophone, and squatted beside the counter on rainy nights to keep him company. He didn't ask "Why don't you speak?" He only did one thing - to make Wen Chu feel that the world was worth listening to.
Later, Wen Chu spoke. The first sentence called Ji Yu's name.
Later he heard the sound of wind, rain, the sound of Ji Yu playing the piano, and the sound of Ji Yu's heartbeat.
The last voice was what Ji Yu said in his ear: "Achu, did you hear it? All the sounds in this world are for you."
Wen Chu said: "I heard it, all of it."
Purpose: Love enables a person to hear the world again