Six years ago, in a reservoir in the middle of summer, a drowning that was defined as an accident buried half of the truth underwater.
Qi Min lived for six years guarding the secret behind the bushes, and nightmares visited him repeatedly at night. When she met Xi Yuzhen again, she recognized him as another witness from that year.
Her original intention of approaching him was not to be moved, but to find out the past that had been buried by everyone.
The young man's notebook is filled with fragments of past events. He is also struggling to pursue the truth, but he does not know that the girl who is testing him is the second witness he has been looking for for many years.
Tang Xu and the suspicion surrounding his sister's death approached step by step. Old physical evidence suddenly appeared, and all the fingers pointed at Xi Yuzhen.
Qi Min holds clues that can clear him up. If he reveals the truth, his cowardice will be made public; if he keeps silent, he will watch him bear unwarranted guilt.
Love and guilt entangle and grow, suspicion and empathy are repeatedly pulled. They think they have seen the past clearly, but they don't know that memory is full of lies.
The scars will not disappear completely. The redemption of young people is never about washing away their mistakes, but about daring to face the secrets, sharing the guilt, and learning to reconcile with the past with the scars.
Concept: When a tragedy is deliberately buried by adults, two teenagers are burdened with heavy secrets and struggle between suspicion and love. The purpose of this book is to explain that youthful fear will breed silence and lies, and that people cannot completely erase past guilt and regret; the real redemption is not to destroy evidence of guilt and escape from reality, but to face up to the cowardice of the past, face the truth, complete self-reconstruction in self-judgment, and learn to move on with scars.