Xia Tianwan thought that everyone had to get caught in the rain at least once in their life.
Before she turned sixteen, her greatest dream was to run wild across an endless wilderness and get drenched in a rain that would never stop.
On her sixteenth birthday, she met Chen Yu for the first time. A downpour swept over them, and they ran through the rain together. Her last thought was:
"He's like a rainstorm."
Like a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest and stirring up a hurricane, through a series of twists and turns, Chen Yu really did become a rainstorm that could break over her head at any moment.
But one ordinary, unremarkable afternoon, bored out of her mind, Xia Tianwan casually opened the geography textbook on her desk and found a note inside: "Stay away from me."
The handwriting was neat and strong. Xia Tianwan knew without even thinking who had left it.
At last, the rain came pouring down. Unlike the rain she'd once hoped for on the open wilderness, this storm was especially fierce, almost tearing apart the longing she'd carried all this time.
She yearned for raindrops over the wilderness, the strong wind rushing through the forest, and the spring fields turning green.
He hated the rotting weeds by the roadside, the old furniture at home, and the way he himself was slowly wasting away.
As the raindrops fell chaotically to the ground, through the steady patter, one shared wish could be heard:
"I want to live."
Content warning:
An unconventional girl-pursues-boy story (the male lead spends the early part of the story wildly convincing himself she's in love with him)
All medical and psychological content is based on information from the internet.
*Bright, warm, straightforward girl x gloomy, sensitive, scheming boy
"Your eyes must be smaller than a lake, and you must rarely cry. Why is it that sitting across from you feels like standing at the edge of a lake, with a fine mist stretching endlessly before me?" - Feng Tang
Theme: Love is pain.
Very real inner activities, cheers!