Transfer student Xia Miaoling entered the new campus with scars all over her body. The malice in her locker and the curses on her desk all silently told her past of being bullied. When she was used to building high walls with silence, art student Zhou Xu broke into her world with the smell of turpentine. He used a paintbrush to paint her embarrassment into a fluttering butterfly, and carved the tenderness of "Don't be afraid" on the rooftop. Those tiny rays of light could never illuminate her shadow-shrouded soul. When the spark of redemption was about to start a prairie fire, fate cruelly pressed the stop button - the ginkgo leaves stopped, the turpentine dissipated, and their story forever stopped at the summer that failed to bloom.
Concept: The novel is based on campus bullying, and its core concept focuses on "the helpless struggle of a broken soul on the edge of redemption, and the irreversibility of youthful pain." Through the tragic bond between Xia Miaoling and Zhou Xu, it shows the deep imprint of trauma on individuals - even if they encounter warm redemption, long-term accumulated psychological trauma is like a scar carved into life, and it is difficult to truly heal; it also reveals the group indifference behind school bullying and the plight of individual isolation. It finally ends with BE, breaking the conventional narrative of "redemption will dispel darkness", triggering readers' deep thinking about the root causes of campus violence, the difficulty of repairing psychological trauma, and the uncertainty of fate, and conveys the practical significance of "regrets and scars will eventually become the background of life" in the pain of youth.