Seventeen-year-old Xie Zhiyi is a man who is about to be broken. Depression, dissociation, habitual tearing of paintings, and belief that he would not survive to adulthood. Late one night in the studio, the 26-year-old well-known painter Xie Zhiyi appeared out of thin air - that was his future self, gentle, calm, and strong. He had passed through all the darkness that he thought he could not survive, and came back specifically to be with him.
The adult Xie Zhiyi taught him how to draw step by step, accompanied him through every breakdown, and gave him all the preferences that understood him best in the world. The young man sinks, relies on, and falls in love with his future self in the only tenderness. But the overlap of time and space is a bug. The more he is cured and the happier he is, the more unstable the timeline becomes. As an adult, Xie Zhiyi began to become transparent and fade, and finally disappeared silently in the dusk of the studio.
The boy was saved, survived, grew up smoothly, and became the new gentle and mature Xie Zhiyi. But he would never, ever see the twenty-six-year-old self who loved him again.
He is the best person I can imagine in life.
It's a future that's just out of my reach.
It's also the ending I'm destined not to get.
Purpose: Love others first, love yourself first