"You are like a butterfly nailed in a specimen frame." When Gu Qichi said this, he was poking Wen Yu'an's meticulous collar with a finger covered in paint. As the president of the student union and number one in his grade, Wen Yuan's life had long been planned by his father as a perfect path to the Ivy League - until the sketchbook with caricatures, the light that was always on in the art classroom late at night, and the brown-haired boy with mysterious numbers tattooed on his wrist appeared.
Gu Qichi was famous throughout the school for his fights, but no one knew that he was the champion of the art competition. When Wen Yuan discovered his notebook full of sketches while on duty, and when Gu Qichi accidentally read Wen Yuan's novel manuscript locked in a drawer, two completely different worlds began to collapse and reconstruct. However, as the friendship deepens, a deeper shadow emerges: the past between Wen Yuan's father and Gu Qichi's mother lies between them like an old wound.
On the eve of the finals of the art festival, heavy rain washed away the roof of the teaching building. Wen Yu'an held the novel manuscript that was torn to pieces by his father, and Gu Qichi held tightly the registration form for giving up the competition. "Can we really only live what they expect?" When the cicadas chirped in June, a volunteer form for the Department of Literature and a painting sent to a national art exhibition gave the answer at the graduation ceremony.
