[Xu Si, seemingly carefree but deeply devoted (top) x Xie Zhiyi, outwardly aloof and distant, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted (bottom)]
Xu Si thought his youth would follow the path his father had laid out, leading him obediently toward a predetermined future. Then he met Xie Zhiyi, the boy who always fixed him with a cold, cutting stare, yet licked his wounds alone in the dead of night. Like two clouds destined to collide, they stirred up one storm after another at Yunhai High School. Everyone said they were like fire and water, but no one noticed that Xie Zhiyi quietly collected the mineral water bottles Xu Si left behind, or that Xu Si always happened to be there when Xie Zhiyi was being bullied. Behind all those seemingly deliberate provocations lay two equally lonely hearts, tentatively reaching for each other.
The school arts festival’s play swept them into a maelstrom of fate. As misunderstandings and truth intertwined, and their shattered past collided with the burning present, they finally tore away their armor. Xu Si’s “carefree” attitude was devotion suppressed for too long; Xie Zhiyi’s “aloof, sharp-tongued” exterior concealed a fear of being hurt. A family upheaval ten years ago had already knotted their fates together. This is a youthful journey of finding their way back to each other. Two scarred boys heal one another, dispel the shadows of the past, and learn to embrace each other as they truly are. When the wind settles among a hedgehog’s spines, they finally understand: the sharpest hostility is simply another shape of love. [Mutual pining × healing and growth × finding their way back to each other. Every clash in their youth was a reunion fate had arranged.]
