And And

People say the heart never lies,

but hearts can lie, hearts can forget, and hearts can lock a soul away...

People also say the eyes are windows to the soul,

but they don't mention that wind can obscure your vision, light can obscure your vision, and obsession can obscure your vision...

A heroine battered by life's hardships VS a hero who slowly grows up

(One couple), (both sexually inexperienced), (older woman, younger man)

Gu Qie was eight when she escaped from her cage. She spent two years sleeping in a concrete pipe and another two in a garbage dump. At twelve, she met the older sister who adopted her. She had only three happy years before endless darkness swallowed her, like a whirlpool, like an abyss.

Only after meeting A Zhao did she learn that life meant more than just staying alive.

A Zhao barely survived beneath the label of “bringer of bad luck.” He slept in a thatched hut with a hole in the roof and a half-collapsed kang, wore ragged clothes nobody else wanted, and earned meals from the neighbors only by working and taking beatings.

Only after meeting Gu Qie did he learn that life had meanings beyond simply staying alive.

Too many upheavals, too many twists and turns, too many stories of helplessness, too many times when things did not go as they should.

He hated her, and she forgot him. Their hearts should have gone their separate ways, yet fate bound them together. In the end, they were separated by oceans: one vanished among the mountains, the other was buried beneath the deep sea...