Cochlear Worm

Introduction to the work "Cochlear Worm": 28-year-old Song Yuan is an introverted and silent freelance writer. When he was in college, he and Wang Shu fell in love with each other, but they never spoke because of their low self-esteem. Many years later, at a class reunion, his friend Sun Zhe revealed the secret of an earring in public - it was the token that Song Yuan planned to give to Wangshu. Wangshu was silent for a moment and said, "I know. I have been wearing them, but now I put them down." After returning the earrings, Song Yuan sat alone by the window and put them on with a smile. The sounds around him disappeared one by one, and he fell into a different world constructed from his heart. There are seven areas in this world, and each scene corresponds to an emotion and an old friend: longing in the library late at night, jealousy on the skyscraper, anger in the abandoned playground, tenderness at the bus stop on a rainy night, relief on the mountaintop observation deck, transformation in the underground maze, and finally awakening in the white void. Song Yuan gradually faced jealousy, guilt, regret and obsession by conquering the "cochlear worm" - the concrete fragment of inner power. The phantom of Wangshu accompanying him is a projection of his heart. The more he lets it go, the more transparent it becomes until it finally disappears. The text of the whole book is: "You are not letting her go, you are letting yourself go." What Song Yuan wants to defeat is not any external enemy, but the self who is trapped in the past and refuses to leave. When he accepted all the emotional fragments, his dream collapsed, and he woke up at dawn with a crack on his earring. He put it in the drawer and sent a message to Sun Zhe - it no longer hurts, just let it go.