One sentence introduction:
I exchanged all my memories for you for seven days. After you left, I forgot about you. Three years later you came back, and I was falling in love with you again, and I was losing you again.
Formal introduction:
There is a resurrecting shop deep in the west lane of the city. The young painter Lu Guan makes a living by painting, but he has a secret that cannot be revealed - he can draw "life-borrowing pictures", allowing the deceased to briefly return to the world at the expense of his own memory.
He has lived alone for many years, is taciturn, and does not get close to others. The bedside is covered with notes written for myself, and there is a wooden box locked in the cabinet that is never touched. In the deepest part of the box is a yellowed piece of paper with only four words on it:
"Thank you Chen. Don't forget."
Lu Guan didn't remember who Xie Chen was. He only knew that every time he saw this name, his chest felt like someone was pressing hard.
Until that rainy night, a soaked man pushed in the door and said to him with a smile: "Lu Guan, I'm back."
Xie Chen. Mo Ling. It is composed of the memory fragments of several generations of the Lu family. It is also the lover Lu Guan forgot three years ago.
Three years ago, Xie Chen melted himself into ink in order to save the person Lu Guan wanted to save. Lu Guan used all his memories of Xie Chen in exchange for his seven-day resurrection. Seven days later, Xie Chen disappeared, and Lu Guan forgot everything.
But Lu Guan's hand was not forgotten.
In the past three years, every stroke he painted was unconsciously repainting Xie Chen.
Now that Xie Chen is back, only the last bit of Mo Qi is left.
Lu Guan fell in love with Xie Chen again in the blank space, and the more he fell in love, the more he became afraid. The loss of memory is accelerating, and Xie Chen's body is becoming transparent day by day. When the plague swept through the city and Yuan Bao died of the disease, Xie Chen offered to use his own life to draw a picture of ten thousand lives.
Lu Guan cried and said, "But I don't want to forget you anymore. Without you, it's very painful."
Xie Chen said: "I know. But I remember you."
Memory betrays, but the body does not. I forgot your name, but I drew you for three years.
Concept: The confrontation between forgetfulness and love. Even if a person forgets the entire past between himself and his lover, his body and instinct will still remember it for him. Love does not only exist in memory, it is engraved in the bones, left in the hands, and pervades every unconscious habit. The essence of love is the entrustment of perfection and memory. Lu Guan forgot Xie Chen to save Xie Chen, and Xie Chen was willing to disappear in order to fulfill Lu Guan's life. True love is not about possession, but rather about letting the other person continue to do what they want. The last thing I want to express is: People's memories will disappear, but the traces of loving someone will never be truly erased. It will emerge bit by bit on a rainy day, in a bowl of soup, or in an empty bowl and chopsticks.