On a leafy green campus, the strongest feelings are often the quietest. Lu Ming is an average student with ordinary looks, a boy accustomed to hiding in the crowd. The only light in his youth is the girl sitting diagonally in front of him, Lin Ru. She always keeps her head down, her bangs long, as quiet as the blank space in an ink painting. Lu Ming's crush shows in the way he sneaks glances at her profile between classes, remembers her favorite yogurt flavor, and drafts and deletes countless messages asking how she's doing. He thinks this cautious, one-sided attention is the biggest secret of his youth.
Until one afternoon, he follows Lin Ru's gaze and sees Ye Feng, the boy who runs across the basketball court, his smile bright enough to light up the whole hallway. Lu Ming's heart feels as if an invisible hand has clenched around it, and he instantly understands the familiar glimmer in Lin Ru's eyes. It turns out that he and she are alike: both of them hide in the shadows, looking up at someone else's sun. He bitterly realizes that the person he secretly loves is humbly in love with someone else. And the sad thing is, he understands her, because their souls share the same creases: insecurity, sensitivity, and fear of speaking their feelings aloud.
Lin Ru's world is not a bright one. Her broken family taught her early to read people's moods and hide her emotions. Ye Feng is a beam of light that happened to shine into her dark life. One thoughtless act of help, one radiant smile, is enough to help her through many difficult days. She tries to become a better version of herself, quietly improves her grades, and experiments with a new hairstyle, all just to get a little closer to him, even if only as an ordinary friend. She doesn't know that every time Ye Feng makes her light up...
