[Volume 1: Root System and Brand] Chapter 1-10 · Completed
Childhood → Adolescence → Breakup
First met at the age of seven → Branded by fire → Crossing the line in adolescence → Differences in the college entrance examination → Pretending in college → Retention in the attic → Disappearing after graduation
★ Core emotions: from "You are my light" to "I don't deserve that light"
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[Volume 2: Storm and Sinking] Chapters 11-25 · In Progress (Chapter 14 has been written)
Loss of contact → Living separately → Reunion → Pulling → Accident
11 Lost contact (Mao Le searched for someone in the rain/Xia Yu hid in the mountains)
12 Returning home (two years later, Mao Le returned to Nanzhou to open a company)
13 Premeditated (that cup of coffee/that book)
14 Keep appointments (weekly agreement)
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15 Getting closer (after meeting several times, Xiayu began to loosen up)
16 Undercurrent (Xia Yu's legs began to have problems/hidden dangers emerged)
17 Crisis (someone is unfavorable to Mao Le, Xia Yu notices)
18 Substitute (Xia Yu thought he could protect Mao Le from disaster)
19 Farewell (the morning of the accident, the last breakfast)
20 Impact (car accident/disability ← connect to the beginning you gave)
★ Core emotion: I think I have caught it, but in fact I am slipping into the abyss.
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[Volume 3: Cage and Madness] Chapters 26-45
Disability → Refusal to see → Search → Despair → Encounter
26-28 Refusal to visit (state visit/Mao Le goes crazy)
29-33 Searching (Mao Le doesn't believe in death and searches for people all over the city)
34-38 Despair (Xiayu transfer to hospital/rehabilitation hell)
39-42 Chance encounter (looking at each other through the glass)
43-45 Dead end (Mao Le was blocked from the door, Xia Yu closed the curtains)
★ Core emotions: One desperately wants to chase, the other desperately wants to disappear
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Purpose: To adapt to the environment