When the autumn rain in Lin'an City rushed into Jinhua Middle School wrapped in the scent of osmanthus, Jiang Mu met Lin An, who was always smiling, in the last row of Class 1 (3). The girl wore a daisy hairpin in her hair and pushed the eraser with a bear pattern on her desk: "My new deskmate, please lend me to copy notes from now on!" But no one knew that behind that ever-bright smile, there was a turbulent undercurrent of bipolar depression.
One ordinary afternoon, Lin An suddenly threw the torn monthly examination papers into the air, and his hysterical laughter scared the sparrows outside the window. Jiang Mu rushed over and hugged the trembling person. Her violent heartbeat could be heard in the palm of his hand, like a butterfly trapped in a cage. As twilight soaked into the classroom, Lin An huddled in the corner with empty eyes: "I messed up again, right?"
From that day on, Jiang Mu had a small book in her schoolbag to record her emotional cycles, and her cellphone memo was filled with reminders about "sweets relieve depression" and "need companionship on rainy days". They shared hot cocoa on the rooftop and watched the neon lights of Lin'an City spread across the clouds; at the door of the psychological counseling room, Jiang Mu quietly stuffed the paper crane she folded into Lin An's hand.
When Lin An froze on the spot due to a depressive attack on the art festival stage, Jiang Mu stepped through the spotlight and held her cold hand. When the song "Light" sung by the two reverberated in the auditorium, Lin An suddenly remembered that on the rainy day when they first met, Jiang Mu was like this, using warm palms to gently hold the world she was about to fall into.
Purpose: redemption
