Introduction to the work "Candlelight"
"You are the only moth that dares to get close to me in my burning night."
Zhong Jining is the most silent art student in a key high school. His wrist is wrapped in a bandage, and his canvas is filled with dark tones of loneliness. She lived under her father's strict control and her mother's indifferent scrutiny. She used a utility knife to carve distress signals that no one could understand on the edge of her sketchbook.
Qiao An is a new transfer student with a bright smile, but he hides a pill box and lighter. She carried a sketchbook with her and drew everything that was on the verge of being broken - withered flowers, birds with broken wings, and the girl who was always sharpening charcoal pencils alone in the studio late at night.
They met in the humid rainy season and exchanged secrets under the candlelight of an abandoned art classroom: Zhong Jining taught Qiao An how to use paint to mix the "color of death", and Qiao An taught her how to use lines to outline the "temperature of life." They skipped class together to watch the sunset on the rooftop, wrote poems in the margins of textbooks, and lit a row of candles in the studio on rainy nights, letting the flames burn in each other's eyes.
However, Qiao An's medical record has a countdown written on it, and there is an unsent letter hidden in Zhong Jining's drawer. On the eve of the college entrance examination, the monitor in the ward sounded a harsh alarm, and Zhong Jining finally brought out the blue that Qiao An wanted most - like the deep sea, like the starry sky, like a tomorrow that could no longer be touched.
Ten years later, Zhong Jining's art exhibition "Candlelight" opened. There was a line of small words written in the lower right corner of the last painting:
"The hundredth candle is a long night lit for you."
"We have agreed to make a hundred paintings, and if one is missing, it won't be forever.
Keywords: youth redemption / double heroine BE / art and life / secret love and eternity
Suitable for the crowd: BE literature readers who like pain aesthetics, two-way redemption, artistic metaphors, and strong stamina
Concept: About the paradox of life, art and love - the true eternity is not continuing, but burning; the deepest salvation is not to be saved, but to be seen completely