Xie Lin was trapped in the woodshed of the Xie family's old house for thirty years. The strangulation marks on his wrists, the frostbite on his ankles, and the old wound on his heart are the marks of his being tortured to death by his mother and brother, and they are also the shackles from which he cannot break free. He thought he would only be accompanied by darkness for the rest of his life, until seventeen-year-old Tang Tang burst in with the scent of herbs.
The handkerchief handed over by the young man was filled with warmth, and the warmth of the roasted chestnuts could penetrate his spiritual body. The nagging voice became the first ray of vitality in the old house in thirty years. Tang Tang's "Essence of Life" can neutralize his resentment, but it also ignites his paranoid possessiveness - the person who brings light must belong to him forever.
He used dead branches to clear a path for the young man, and used evil spirits to drive away his malice. However, in the name of "protection", he also dragged everyone who came close to the young man into the abyss. Tang Tang wanted to pull him out of the cage, and wanted him to believe that "you can be liberated by letting go of your obsessions," but the moment Xie Lin grabbed his neck, he understood: This soul swallowed by darkness has already turned "warmth" into the cruelest cage.
When the death of the benefactor becomes the last straw that breaks trust, the pull between two marginalized souls ends in a dead end. In the illusion of the woodshed reappearing on a snowy night, Xie Lin extinguished the only light, hugging his increasingly cold body, and dreamed a dream about the temperature of chestnuts in the eternal darkness.
The old locust tree in the old house died and came back to life. Every year when its petals float to the woodshed, it seems to be repeating the unspoken words: Some darkness will only swallow up the light.
Concept: The core of the story is not who redeems whom, but two completely different souls who see their missing parts in each other's reflection.
