**"Falling Leaves on Page 137"**
——**"Some stories were taken away by autumn before they were finished."**
Ye Zhiqiu's sketchbook hides all her secrets - her stepfather's fists, the scars on her wrists, and a rust-colored cage from which she can never escape. Xie Jingchen is considered a proud man by others, but he has a habit of counting the antidepressants in small bottles late at night, calculating how many milligrams he is away from going crazy.
Two scarred souls meet - she teaches him how to live, and he teaches her how to be loved. Until fate tore apart all the illusion of tenderness: her blood was filled with the poison of her stepfather's paint workshop, and he inherited her mother's self-destructive gene.
They agreed to live until winter to see the first snow, but Ye Zhiqiu's blood solidified in the autumn wind first. Xie Jingchen, who became a doctor many years later, was drawing the 137th fallen leaf on the medical record when he heard a familiar song coming from the window - the song "Beautiful Ruins" that they played repeatedly on the old tape recorder in the art classroom.
**"If you are destined to fall, at least let me remember the temperature of your palm."**
Concept: soul resonance, symbiosis of art and pain