"Two male leads + modern setting + shou protagonist"
Gentle, guiding psychologist gong × sensitive, gloomy, tearful patient shou
Little fish, little fish, swim along. Little fish, little fish, come back home.
Yu An's adoptive older brother sends him to a conversion therapy camp because he's gay.
Three years and fifty-six days of abuse drain away his will to live.
Then Yu An meets Shen Yu. Shen Yu can't understand why Yu An can have someone he himself can't.
After spending three years at the camp, Yu An suffers withdrawal symptoms. Every day, he can't eat; even when he takes a bite, he throws it up.
Shen Yu doesn't know what Yu An has been through, but he swears he'll never let Yu An's brother take him away again.
But Yu An thinks the greatest happiness is death. Only death can truly set him free.
Butterflies perish in summer; whales drown in the ocean.