Gentle and patient attack✖️Sensitive and paranoid
Seven-year-old Xia Wei is a "bastard" detested by everyone in Nanxi Village. He struggles to survive in a dark, damp woodshed and frequent violence. Until twelve-year-old Lin Yang reached out to him, shielded him from the wind and rain, and handed him a piece of candy.
In that long and sultry midsummer, when the rice waves rolled and the cicadas chirped noisily, the gentle and kind-hearted Lin Yang became the only salvation and god in the dark world of Xia Wei.
Lin Yang only regarded Xia Wei as a poor brother who had been abused and extremely insecure. He used all his tenderness and tolerance to protect him, and made a strong promise to "always be your light." Lin Yang thought this was a warm comfort, but he didn't know that Xia Wei's paranoid and morbid seeds had already taken deep root in the years filled with the fragrance of rice.
The secretly crushed greeting cards, the bloody album full of pictures of the same person, the dependence on the pulse in the blizzard night... Xia Wei used wounds to win favor, used cleverness to cover up madness, and quietly swept away all the shadows trying to get close to Lin Yang.
From the dirt road where the fragrance of rice spreads in Nanxi Village, to the alleys of the county town a hundred miles away, and then to the thousands of mountains and rivers even further away.
Lin Yang is a soaring eagle who wants to take him out of the sea of suffering; Xia Wei is a shadow entangled in his flesh and blood, vowing to trap his god in his web forever.
"You give me a piece of sunshine, and I give you a lifetime of chains."
Intent: Love and redemption can give people the courage to pierce the darkness, but in obsession and attachment, only by learning to be honest and truly growing can we reach the end of true equality.