Lin Wan, a “lonely island” of a girl on the verge of breaking down under the pressure of the college entrance exams, is drowned day after day in criticism for being “less than perfect.” The arrival of transfer student Gu Yu, cold and enigmatic, leads him to stumble upon the antidepressants she has been hiding. His quiet, sigh-like words, “I used to take them too,” become the first light to pierce the silence. When despair drives Lin Wan to the edge of a rooftop, just as she is about to plunge into the abyss, Gu Yu climbs five stories into the air and catches her falling body with bloodied hands. After she is rescued, a photo sealed away in Gu Yu’s shattered phone reveals a long-buried connection spanning ten years: it shows seven-year-old Lin Wan gently feeding a cat at sunset. The boy who once watched her silently from a shadowy childhood alley was none other than Gu Yu. In their darkest moments, two souls gnawed at by loneliness and trauma recognize the distant childhood glimmer in each other. This is a story of two broken souls saving one another. At the edge of despair, they finally see that those forgotten moments of tenderness were the “light they never expected” to pierce the long darkness and guide them out of the ruins. Even when the world crumbles like a collapsing tower, a faint glimmer from the past can still light the way home.
