The rain in Nancheng always falls late at night. When Ye An met Shen Chenxi for the first time, the rain was weaving diagonally, turning the alleys in the old city into mud. He originally came to investigate a serial theft case, but when the car lights swept over, he ran into three gangsters surrounding a young boy huddled in a corner.
The boy was wearing a hoodie that had been washed white, and the hood was pulled down extremely low, revealing only a section of his pale lower jaw. When he was kicked in the stomach, he didn't hide or make a sound. He was like a stone soaked in water, as hard as a heavy stone. It wasn't until Ye An made a sound to drink and the gangsters dispersed cursing that the young man slowly raised his head. It was a double-bright sky, as bright as ice-tempered glass. There was no gratitude inside, only a dead silence of indifference, and the gloomy bird of prey hidden in the deepest part, almost overflowing.
The tissue Ye An handed over was ignored. The young man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, turned around and plunged deeper into the darkness, leaving only a cold "mind your own business" and a dark mark on the ground that was diluted by rain and had a metallic taste.
Ye An didn't know it at that time. This intersection on a rainy night will be like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, creating endless ripples in his seemingly peaceful life. Little did he know that this young man with thorns all over his body would become the only light he wanted to hold in his hands in the years to come. And Shen Chenxi never thought that the man who suddenly broke into the rain alley would be the one who dragged him out of more than ten years of darkness and told him "you deserve to be loved."
The encounter between darkness and morning is never accidental. Just like the rain in Nancheng will eventually stop, just like lost people will eventually find their way back - some bonds are destined to linger for a lifetime from the first moment they look at each other.
Purpose: Love does not distinguish between genders, but you must study hard and make progress every day