[Unrequited love fulfilled × healing × love that grows over time × angst × urban campus romance]
Cool, gentle top student × sunny, cocky bad boy
Rookie reporter × top-tier lawyer
Before meeting Li Qingmeng, Ye Yumian had never cared much about his high school years. Then she appeared, and he caught a glimpse of brilliant light.
They met with nothing more than a glance, and from that moment on, he drowned in her eyes.
“Li Qingmeng, I really wish that one day I could love you openly, without hiding it.”
But that day seemed like it would never come.
Years later, Li Qingmeng came to City S and crossed paths with Ye Yumian once more. The wheels of fate began turning again.
This time, he wouldn’t let go. He would hold tight to their shattered dream.
“Qingmeng, I have to step out for a bit. Stay here and behave…”
“Yumian, I’ll be good and do as I’m told. Come see me again, and comfort me again… okay?”
…
“I once believed in something empty: a barren stretch of red earth, where a blood-red rose bloomed. A caged bird with broken feathers thirstily drank the dew from its petals. But could the commotion disturb its dream…”
“The bead falls upon the fragrant ground; the sparrow dies in its bloody cage.”
