Diary Across Time and Space

2008. Eighteen-year-old Lin Yuan lives in a conservative small town in the south. He is quiet, sensitive, has poor grades, and secretly likes a boy in his class who plays basketball. He wrote down all the words he couldn't say into a cowhide-covered diary - about the boy's back shot, about his father's scorn at "that kind of person" at the dinner table, and about the phrase "am I sick" that he repeatedly asked himself at three in the morning. On one of the last pages, he wrote: > It would be great if there was a place like that where you don't need a reason or courage to like someone. Then he stuffed the diary into the deepest part of his schoolbag and continued to live a "normal" life in everyone's eyes. 2024. Thirty-three-year-old Shen Ji works as a sexual minority rights lawyer in Beijing. He came out, became independent, fought for other people's rights in court - and seemed invincible. But few people know that his first love boyfriend chose to marry a woman due to family pressure. Before leaving, he left a message, "We are all ordinary people and can't bear it." From then on, Shen Ji's life became a brightly lit island. He took on the most difficult public interest litigation, winning half and losing half, and lived on a cup of cold soy milk every day until noon. Until one day, he bought a yellowing diary in an old bookstore that was about to close down. Turning to the last page, he saw a line of pen writing - a call for help written on the page by a seventeen-year-old boy, almost exactly the same as he had been. So he picked up his pen and replied. The next day, Lin Yu'an in 2008 opened his diary and saw a line of writing that appeared out of thin air. Thus began a correspondence that lasted sixteen years. It was trial and shock at first. Then came the talk - about the youth that was not understood, about the desire of not knowing where to go, about the late-night questioning of "Am I a monster?" In Shen Ji's words, Lin Yu'an saw a possibility for the first time: It turns out that people can live like this, and it turns out that liking the same sex is not a disease that needs to be "corrected." And in Lin Yu'an's clumsy but hot confession, Shen Ji re-encountered the same self when he was seventeen years old, squatting on the rooftop and shaking. He grabbed Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan picked up Shen Ji. However, the crisis is approaching step by step. Lin Yuan's diary hidden under her pillow was discovered by her mother - those "wrong" thoughts were enough to make a traditional family explode. Rumors in the school, his father's fists, his mother kneeling down and crying begging him to "change back" - in 2008, Lin Yu'an was falling into an abyss that all closeted teenagers feared. Shen Ji wrote frantically at the other end of the diary, trying to catch a person who was falling from the other side of time. At the same time, Shen Ji began to investigate the origin of this diary. He discovered an obscure and disturbing clue - in the original timeline, Lin Yu'an in 2008 did not seem to have lived long enough to send this diary to a used bookstore. And every time Shen Ji writes, has the ending been rewritten? Lin Yu'an A senior high school student in a small southern town. Quiet, sensitive, able to draw, and secretly write poetry under the desk. In an environment where everyone thinks "boys should of course like girls", he is like a voiceless alien. He was unassuming and did not resist. He swallowed all his self-doubts and asked himself "Is there something wrong with me" over and over again in his diary. But after meeting Shen Ji, he started to look up little by little. I started to dare to open the curtains and look at the lights outside. I started to dare to raise my hand in class and ask the teacher: Is the power of molding people into another person in the name of "for your own good" also considered cannibalism? He was closeted, trembling, and wanted to give up countless times. But he was also the one who dared to write "be brilliant" in his diary when he was seventeen years old. Shen Ji Beijing sexual minority rights lawyer. Calm and sharp, he never takes the initiative to mention his own orientation in court - but when the other party's lawyer attacks him, he never gives in. He seems to have already accomplished self-acceptance. But deep down in his heart, he has never really forgiven the self who nodded and said "I understand" when bidding farewell to his first love. He litigated cases for others and fought for their rights—but never fought for anything for himself. Including the right to be loved. Until he opened an old diary and saw the same words he wrote on the last page of his chemistry notebook sixteen years ago. He began to reply to a boy. What he didn't know was that the boy was also writing back to him. When a teenager asks himself "am I a monster" at three in the morning, what kind of response should he get? This is a love story between two boys, and it is also a long letter written to all those who have doubted themselves late at night. -Two male protagonists, attacking each other. Both of them are strong enough, and they also have soft spots that they dare not touch. - Contains discussion of social issues, but uses the emotions of the characters as the main narrative line. - Cross-time and space communication is set as the core mechanism of the story, and the diary is the only connection medium. -HE. Abuse is a process, the light is at the end. Ps: I apologize for the poor writing for my first time. Concept: An old diary connects 2008 and 2024. Two boys, sixteen years apart, wrote down the secrets that each other dared not tell on both ends of the page - he held him, he picked him up.