Piano prodigy Lin Wei is the perfect student in her teachers’ eyes. Only Jiang Che, who skips class by climbing over the school wall, sees the loneliness in her music. He is a rebel living under the shadow of his alcoholic father, yet on a stormy night, he cuts his arm for her and catches her tears with a collection of Haizi’s poems.
“Everyone else sees you covered in mud. I see the light in your soul.” “The more flawless the light on the piano keys, the more it needs cracks of shadow to breathe.” He tears open the cage of perfection around her, and she lights the torch of dignity for him. Perhaps happiness is simply two halves, rolling through the world and getting covered in mud, until at last they fit together to make a whole.
