Lin Qian shakes off the dried sunflower petals from the yellowed copy of "The Kite Runner", and the signature "To Xiaoqing" on the title page tears apart ten years like a crack. Su Qing, who was wearing a red sweatshirt, barged in with a handkerchief stained with cobalt blue paint. The vague tattoo on her wrist, the smell of turpentine on Senior Lu Yuan's cuffs, and the scar on the corner of Gu Chen's eyebrows all intertwined into a riddle of the fate of three generations.
Lu Yuan's sketchbook was filled with pictures of Su Qing's back, but he fled in panic when she asked for help at the art exhibition; behind the sunshine at Gu Chen's charity lecture was his father's bankruptcy notice; all twelve sunflowers on Su Qing's canvas faced left, and the outline of the blank space in the center of the flower completely overlapped with Gu Chen's scar. When Lin Qian discovered that the date of Lu Yuan's borrowing record coincided with the petal on his collar from Su Qing's art exhibition when they first met, the grievances between his parents at the Academy of Fine Arts, the car accident on a rainy night, and the torn oil paintings in the studio all surged like underground roots.
The diamond-shaped spots on Su Qing's handkerchief matched the missing corners of the first edition of the book on Lu Yuan's desk; the red stamp on Lin Qian's rejection letter matched the cracks in the first oil painting that Su Qing's father tore up. The yellowed photos in Lu Yuan's drawer, the burn scars on the young man's wrists and her tattoos formed a mirror image. Mother's civil servant information, Su Qing's invitation to Paris, Gu Chen's diagnosis of liver cancer, every fragment of memory is engraved with "betrayal" and "redemption".
In the youth of this light chaser, sunflowers grow toward the sun and shadows at the same time - the light spots in the library, the paints in the studio, and the dates on the medical records have already buried the key to solving the ten-year mystery, and the truth may be hidden in the sunflower disk that always turns its back to the sun.
Purpose: The two girls support each other amidst family pressure and the pursuit of dreams, showing the life force of using friendship as a light, adhering to oneself and sowing hope in the cracks of reality during youth growth.