The Summer Deep Freeze

Zhang Xiahan's life was painted in dark shades by fate from the very beginning. Growing up without a father left him mired in loneliness and fear. As an adult, society's indifference, his friends' betrayal, and career setbacks pushed him ever closer to the abyss of despair. Drinking, depression, and shutting himself away from the world... He became the most wretched failure in other people's eyes, and even he loathed the walking corpse he had become.

Yet when an accident pushed him to the brink of life and death, a stubborn girl named Lin Muyu barged into his world. Like sunlight piercing the storm clouds, she insisted on shining a light on his festering wounds. She said, "Zhang Xiahan, you're not afraid to die, so why are you afraid to try living for once?"

From resistance to wavering, from avoidance to facing things head-on, Zhang Xiahan begins an almost cruel journey of self-redemption, battered and bruised. The shadows of the past cling to him like bone-deep parasites, and society's prejudice cuts like a knife. But this time, he chooses to clench his fists and tear open fate's cocoon, even if it leaves him bloody and broken.

**"If the night has no end, then I'll make myself the dawn."**