Jiang Chizhou was once the brightest star in the art world. Now, no one dares even speak his name.
Ten years ago, a devastating fire took his parents and his future.
Haunted by the trauma, he could no longer see colors. Numb and withdrawn, he shut himself away from the world.
Until Qiao Xin barged into his life.
Her smile was more dazzling than sunlight. With her unruly brushstrokes, she stubbornly entered his forbidden world and drew him back into painting.
Qiao Xin: "Jiang Chizhou, in my next life, I want to become a butterfly and be a splash of color in your world."
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The day before registration for the two-person painting competition.
Qiao Xin declared confidently, "Team up with me, and we'll be the strongest CP ever!"
Jiang Chizhou took half a step back. "I... haven't touched a paintbrush in a long time."
Qiao Xin waved her phone. "Refuse me one more time, and I'll expose a certain 'peeping tom' to the whole world."
Jiang Chizhou's ears turned bright red. "That's a misunderstanding!"
The finals began beneath dazzling spotlights.
The moment Jiang Chizhou, a genius painter silent for ten years, picked up his brush again, the whole room held its breath.
His strokes glided across the canvas, confident and fluid, as if the glory of the past were about to return.
Just as he dipped his brush into warm-colored paint and was about to make his first stroke, voices of discussion rang in his ears without warning. A tide seemed to swallow him. The light vanished from his eyes, and the warm hues on the canvas before him rapidly faded away.
The brush slipped from his fingers. Jiang Chizhou froze. "Qiao Xin. I... can't see colors anymore."
Qiao Xin laid her hand over his. "Don't be afraid, Jiang Chizhou. Let me be your eyes."
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Qiao Xin always seemed to appear by chance when he was at his most miserable.
By chance, she had brought extra ginger tea, warming his stiff, frozen fingers.
By chance, her tutoring class was canceled, so she accompanied him to paint under the pretext of studying.
By chance, he fainted from low blood sugar and fell into her arms, which carried the faint scent of medicinal herbs.
He began to greedily rely on these coincidences.
Until New Year's Eve, when Jiang Chizhou worked up the courage to ask her to meet him beneath the fireworks filling the sky.
The dazzling fireworks illuminated her pale face, but she smiled and said, "You fool, Jiang Chizhou. There's someone I like already."
Theme: Meeting you let me live again
