I thought you were the sun, able to melt the ice in my heart.
I never knew you were drowning in the abyss too, longing for the false light I gave you.
On the first day of their second year of high school, rain pours down in sheets. Soaked and disheveled, Su Wan rushes into the school building and catches Gu Ran’s eye. She looks up, and for one fleeting moment, her radiant, infectious smile shines like a beam piercing the gloom, scorching his lifeless heart. Gu Ran, the seemingly flawless top student and handsome boy from a wealthy family, offers her a gentle hand. For Su Wan, who is used to walking alone in the dark, it awakens a desire to draw close to warmth for the first time.
They promise to be each other’s light and save one another as they endure the darkest days of their final year of high school.
She thinks he is a true sun who can drive the chill from her heart; he thinks she is a true source of light, able to give him the strength to catch his breath.
When the stars sink beneath the sea, the grand silent play called “redemption” comes to an end in the quietest way. Only a faint glimmer of starlight beneath the waves remains, proof that for a brief, desperate moment, they once lit up each other’s lives.
