When he was sixteen years old, He Zhilin transferred to Yuman Middle School. Because of an anonymous phone call, he found Bai Jiyu.
She was sitting by the window reading, with a copy of "Criminal Psychology" and a hand-drawn diagram of a drainage pipe network spread out on the table. He said he wanted to be her partner, and she pushed the orange back on his desk and said, "Leave me alone."
Later, he brought an orange every day, and she accumulated more and more oranges in her pencil case, but she didn't lose any of them.
They went down the well together and found a white skeleton that had been built into the well wall for 23 years; they looked through old newspapers together and pieced together a bloody timeline spanning eight lives. And the murderer hiding in the city's drainage system is using the ruins of the old winery to slowly collect the last card in his hand.
The case gets deeper and deeper, and the people get closer and closer. But she didn't know it at the time. Bai Jiyu's pencil case also contained a light gray note that said "Don't go too far." And deep in He Zhilin's pocket, there was also a sentence she didn't see - "Before everyone."
This is a serial pursuit that spans twenty-three years and involves eight lives. It is also a long time for two teenagers who are not good at expressing themselves to get close to each other in the quietest way. At the end of the story, they planted a locust tree together next to the well in the east of the city.
"For those who have waited too long, let's see a few more springs."
Intent: To reflect the contrast between the beauty of youth and the bleak reality of human nature.