*Youth Pain Literature | Childhood Sweethearts | Campus Love | Redemption and Growth
An accident seven years ago caused Xu Li's world to completely collapse.
His mother died in a car accident, his father was cold and distant, and his childhood sweetheart Zhang Shisheng left without saying goodbye. The boy who gave her a silver chain and promised "the two leaves will never be separated" disappeared from her life.
Seven years later, on the transfer day of Xichuan No. 1 Middle School, Xu Li and Zhang Shisheng passed each other. The blackened silver chain on her wrist suddenly broke, like their fragmented past.
Xu Li is no longer the girl who loved to laugh. She was silent and distant, closing herself in a cage of self-blame. Only the persistence of transfer student Chang Jiayi and the gentleness of her brother Xu Huai allowed her to barely maintain contact with the world.
And Zhang Shisheng's return is like a stone thrown into stagnant water. He remembered all her habits - her fear of the dark, her love of eating strawberry cake, her tendency to bite her lip when she was angry. He gave her a small cake every day, with seven years of missing her written on the card.
"Xu Li," he said to her on a rainy night, "you can continue to hate me, but don't hate yourself."
When the truth of the past is gradually revealed, and when the fates of the four people become entangled, Xu Li must make a choice - to live forever in the shadow of the past, or to bravely move towards a bright future?
