Twelve-Hour Time Difference

[An international student’s love story] [A playboy heir goes broke halfway through; the good girl with a secret crush runs away midway; he must win her back, with a healing tale of unrequited love]

She had once been lonely, across the ocean, far from home.

He Tou was just an ordinary international student. She had always muddled through life, working hard as she went, asking only to protect the family she had now and the person she would love in the future.

On nights when there was nowhere to hide, He Tou had once succumbed to loneliness.

So, on a long, aimless road, she became enamored with a warmth that was never hers.

He had once been lonely, on a foreign night when he had nothing.

Yi Ziming was just one of countless disappointed souls. His smooth-sailing life had been overturned by a setback he had never seen coming.

Amid the bustle and the quiet, he did as he pleased and let himself drift.

Beneath the cold fluorescent lights, he had once surrendered to an embrace.

So, on the road home through life, he found his destination, only to be cast away again.

A timid woman

faces

a man who pretends to be someone he is not

and explains

why she left.