The autumn rain in Linjiang City always smells of rust, like an oil painting scraper that never gets clean. Art student Lin Hezhou reunited in a heavy rainstorm with Shen Hengqiu, who had disappeared for three years - the lover who had shielded her from sulfuric acid in the studio, now became a strange visitor sitting on her desk.
The old lover's fingertips were lingering with the unfamiliar smell of disinfectant, student president Lu Chusheng's asthma spray contained pink pills, and Bai Yiwei was wearing a men's sweatshirt that didn't belong to her when she fell. Lin Hezhou saw countless versions of himself in the reflection of the water: the one holding open Shen Hengqiu's school uniform with a utility knife, the one holding Bai Yi's slightly blood-stained diary, and the one who attempted to kiss Lu Chusheng's lips.
What exactly burned down on that rainy night three years ago? The blade embedded in the lily specimen, the pinhole on the back of the faded amusement park ticket, and the black motorcycle that always roared in the rain... When the fourth rainy season came, Lin Hezhou discovered that everyone's medical records were missing the same page.
Rain is the developer of lies.
Someone carved Morse code on the rooftop railing, someone hid bloody ginkgo leaves between the piano keys, and Bai Yiwei on the autopsy table had raindrops that would never fall on her eyelashes.
The rain that trapped the four girls had been falling forever in the red paint that had been spilled in the studio that year. When the rusty school badge pierced the palm of his hand, Lin Hezhou finally saw the eyes in the depths of the rain curtain - it was himself on her eighteenth birthday, holding the gold-plated lighter she gave to Shen Hengqiu.
It's still raining.
Someone is waking up.
Concept: Misunderstanding is a poisonous paintbrush that paints unspoken love into the shape of hate.