A new student transfers to the high school in town. He has a handsome face and a gloomy gaze, completely out of place in this ordinary, drab little world.
On his first day, Yu Jiaxi walks into class with a cold expression and takes his seat. His new deskmate, He Juan, is the only one who doesn't look up at him, too absorbed in drawing in his textbook.
He Juan has an unruly head of curls and likes to smile with his eyes. He often wanders around town with a sketchbook. Before Yu Jiaxi showed up, he was the strangest student in many of his classmates' eyes.
After someone even stranger arrives, He Juan starts going through the blank pages in his sketchbook faster and faster. They're all snapshots made of lively lines, like pages from a comic: a tall, skinny boy climbing a wall to skip school; rudely pushing away a bank card being offered through the window of a luxury car; beating up a neighbor who'd been calling his mother a homewrecker behind his back...
One evening, He Juan stands in the corner and sees Yu Jiaxi's mother lower her head and apologize meekly to the neighbors, then turn around and slap her son hard across the face.
Yu Jiaxi, who never backs down in a fight, doesn't hit back. He simply walks away from the home submerged in twilight. His pale expression and the red mark on his cheek shine together, like a block of ice on fire.
There is no one reflected in those utterly cold eyes anymore. Instead, they brim with a smile that seems to come from nowhere.
He smiles. He looks beautiful.
Just like a mad villain in a comic who has finally gone completely dark.
He Juan, quietly watching from a corner, draws Yu Jiaxi's face in careful detail for the first time.
He looks at it with particular tenderness, for he has finally found the perfect face for the dark story in his sketchbook.
After filling the last blank page, He Juan carefully wraps up the sketchbook and mails it far away.
A week later, a thick rejection letter is left on the wrong desk. Yu Jiaxi, his face bruised, opens it without thinking, and its colorful pages flutter in the wind.
When He Juan hurries back to the classroom, he runs straight into a pair of eyes staring right at him.
In those icy black eyes, a reflection suddenly appears again.
It never disappears after that.
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