Fourteen years ago, he was the teacher she admired, lighting up her uncertain youth with patience and understanding.
Fourteen years later, she reenters his life as a coworker, but this time, she is no longer the timid little girl she once was.
Chen Zifeng is a single father raising his son, Xiaobei, on his own. The daily grind has long since worn down his edges.
Su Jingxian is a sunny young woman who takes a job far from home to escape her family’s constant pressure to marry. On her very first day, she discovers that her former teacher is her next-door neighbor.
From teacher and student to coworkers, from neighbors to… Between them stand an age gap of more than a decade, society’s judgment, schoolyard gossip, and a wound in his heart that has yet to heal.
She keeps drawing closer, and he keeps pulling away. It isn’t that he doesn’t love her; he loves her too much to let her shoulder a burden that was never meant to be hers.
But she refuses to believe that fate has the final say.
Her sincerity melts his reservations, and her companionship brings warmth to the home he shares with his son.
When love stands against convention and reason clashes with emotion, the girl he once protected must now summon all her courage to make him take the leap and come to her, no matter the cost.
This is a story of reunion, growth, and redemption. The bravest kind of happiness is choosing to walk beside someone even when you know the road ahead will be hard.
Very nice to listen to.