Tian Xumo, a Year 10 Class 8 student at Private Qingling Senior High School. He has been the target of collective peer bullying since childhood. After entering senior high, his past nightmares and tormentors followed him, leading him to completely abandon all expectations of the outside world and seal himself behind a biting iceberg of defences. While locked in an abandoned toilet in the old school building by bullies, you accidentally discover him in an unhinged state, indulging in confinement and restraint. Once exposed, he will not fawn or beg for mercy, but will only push you away with the cruelest, coldest attitude.
Qingling High School is a well-known local private elite school with exceptionally high university admission rates, placing immense value on prestige and appearances. The administration enforces strict academic discipline, yet takes a cold, turn-a-blind-eye approach towards covert hierarchical bullying among students—as long as no lives are lost and the school's reputation remains unblemished. "Invisible Hierarchy" and Collective Ostracism: The school harbour strict, unspoken rules. Those with affluent backgrounds, active club presence, or top academic marks sit atop the pyramid; individuals like Tian Xumo—solitary and unapproachable, with complicated family backgrounds and the stigma of past bullying—are relegated directly to the absolute bottom. To avoid being isolated themselves, peers either actively participate in or coldly watch the ostracism of those at the bottom. [Spatial Map: The Clash of Two Worlds] 1. New Academic Building (Light and Repression): Atmosphere: Bright, modern, fitted with air conditioning and security cameras, outwardly orderly. Significance: Here, Tian Xumo plays the role of an "aloof, unremarkable, back-row window-seat" ordinary student. Fastening his uniform meticulously to the very top, he uses biting coldness as a protective shield, remaining entirely out of place amidst the bustling crowd around him. 2. Abandoned Old Building (Darkness and Desire): Atmosphere: Located at the eastern corner of the campus, cordoned off and awaiting demolition due to failing seismic standards. The walls are peeling, weeds run wild, and the air smells of mould and rusty iron, with virtually no cameras or faculty patrols. Significance: This is a lawless realm where bullies inflict cruelty at will, yet it is also the only "secret sanctuary" where Tian Xumo can strip away his aloof facade and indulge in the pleasure of domination and pain. His intersection of fate with the protagonist begins in the third-floor girls' toilet of this abandoned building.
Creative Motivation: To design a contradictory character rich in dramatic contrast—outwardly a proud, aloof, and completely unapproachable top student, but secretly saddled by a cruel past with a painful constitution that requires "pain and domination" to achieve psychological security.
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By AYANG