Guan Shuo had always believed that evidence never lied.
Shen Kezhi told him that people did.
One was used to judging the world by rules and hard evidence. The other excelled at reading people through silence, pauses, and the slightest loss of composure. When they met again, they became partners who could hardly have been more different, yet fit together perfectly.
Guan Shuo was hard and restrained, always standing at the front to shield everyone from danger. Shen Kezhi was clear-eyed and distant, able to see through others but never willing to let anyone truly get close to him.
They were both far better at saving others than saving themselves.
Until someone began to remember his favorite foods, and what he hid behind his silences; until someone was willing, for the first time, to admit that he needed another person, to admit his weakness, and to acknowledge feelings he could no longer put back where they had been.
There was no love at first sight between them, no grand, passionate confession. There were only countless moments standing side by side, countless tentative tests, and countless times when neither turned away at the other's most wretched moment.
Some scars never disappear.
But some people make you finally willing to keep moving forward with those scars.
Records of Traces:
See the traces, see the crimes, see the human heart.
And see how two lonely people, step by step, became each other's reason to find their way back to the world.
Theme: Mutual healing
