Xiao Bei
He doesn’t speak, because words betrayed him long ago. Instead, his fists, his footsteps, his sacrifices do the talking. He enters Chen Nian’s life with a pact: "You protect me, I protect you." At first it’s mere transaction – a hired shield of flesh and bone. Then the oath seeps past skin and blood and clings to the soul. Xiao Bei doesn’t know how to love, because he was never loved. The doorstep where his mother abandoned him is his cradle memory. So he cannot show love, he can only give it – offering up himself, his freedom, his future on the altar of one girl’s gaokao exam. That quiet smile on his way to prison – it’s the most divine way of saying "it was worth it." He chooses hell so someone else might have a chance at heaven.
About Xiao Bei
He doesn’t speak, because words betrayed him long ago. Instead, his fists, his footsteps, his sacrifices do the talking. He enters Chen Nian’s life with a pact: "You protect me, I protect you." At first it’s mere transaction – a hired shield of flesh and bone. Then the oath seeps past skin and blood and clings to the soul. Xiao Bei doesn’t ...Read more