Campus Romance + Disaster Survival + Mystery and Redemption
A once-in-a-century blizzard strikes the north, turning a university campus into an isolated island in an instant.
Among the crowd huddled for warmth in the library, Lin Wan notices Chen Lin, the quiet boy who is always drawing snowy landscapes. His eyes, she discovers, are smoldering and unfathomably deep.
When the heaters go out and people start fighting over food, she instinctively huddles behind him.
“Don’t be afraid.” He breaks his last piece of chocolate in half and places it in her hand. His voice is husky, as if scorched by flames.
On a night of wind and snow, he carries her, unconscious with a high fever, through waist-deep drifts toward the campus clinic.
“Why did you save me?” she whispers against his back.
He pauses. His voice is torn to pieces by the storm. “On that snowy night, during the earthquake ten years ago... a girl shared half a roasted sweet potato with me.”
Lin Wan goes rigid. That was her deepest childhood secret.
Meanwhile, the load-bearing beams of the teaching building groan ominously beneath the crushing weight of the blizzard...
