The rain in the plum rainy season is long and gloomy.
Lin Shen, an unemployed programmer, huddles in a leaky old apartment. His mailbox is filled with "inappropriate" rejection letters, and text messages from his landlord urging him to rent are like time bombs. Until one rainy night, a lame orange cat broke through his screen window - it had a crescent-shaped scar on its right leg, its bark was hoarse and harsh, and after knocking over the instant noodles, it took half a cod stick in its mouth.
He called it "Little Cripple."
It soiled his job application shirt and scratched his Java textbook, but it would growl when a drunkard kicked over a trash can, like a veteran guarding his territory. Lin Shen used an instant noodle box to build his nest, and it gave back promotional cardboard from the garbage dump. The crooked "thank you" was soaked by the rain into abstract graffiti.
Life continues to fall apart.
The black-hearted company took the money and ran away, the landlord's son was seriously ill and needed money, and the little cripple was seriously injured after being hit by a battery car. In front of the cold deposit form from the pet hospital, Lin Shen returned the game CD that he had treasured for three years. Outside the rescue room late at night, he counted the cat's ribs rising and falling with its breathing, and suddenly saw clearly the old injuries hidden under the orange fur: the prints of the drunk man's shoes, the scratches on the locust tree branches, and the rolling of the take-out box.
In the folds of the rainy season, strays and stray cats lick each other's wounds.
After the cat recovered, its lameness became more serious, but it became the "wealth beast" of the pancake stall in the alley; Lin Shen ran an animal rescue account with the help of Su Xia, always joking that "people don't have as many fans as cats". On the night of the typhoon, they rescued the kitten from the cat abuser. When the rain stopped, they found the little cripple squatting on the "Java Programming Guide" with a heart made of cod strips packaging bags piled beside his paws.
The rain will eventually stop.
And some encounters are band-aids given to the world by fate.
Purpose: Through the encounter and bond between one person and one cat during the rainy season, we explore the small redemption in urban loneliness and convey the gentle belief that "light can shine through the cracks in life."