Surface: A timid girl discovers the dark secret of her perfect senior and is forced to be involved in a twisted "symbiosis game."
Core: Two souls torn apart by the world, clumsily stitching each other's wounds amid lies and ashes, and finally complete the redemption of themselves and each other in a "dislocated" way.
Personality
Female protagonist (Song Yao)
- INFP, soft and waxy as grass on the outside, sensitive as a butterfly on the inside. Being bullied all year round in a single-parent family, she relies on immersive diary writing and inner Xiao Jiujiu to survive.
- Trigger point: When she witnessed the male protagonist burning the painting, the distorted portrait of her parents and children in the ashes overlapped with the face of her mother smeared in her diary, creating a morbid resonance.
Male protagonist (Jiang Lin)
- ISTP, in person he is a cool and gentle art genius, but in person he uses acrimony and a desire for destruction to fight against the suffocation of being domesticated by an elite family.
- Secret weapon: Burn every winning work (the "perfect persona" controlled by the father), except for the childhood family photo that was splashed with paint. The ashes will reveal the bruises of domestic violence that were covered up.
Intention: Two-way redemption