Xie Xunzhou's birth seemed to come with a label attached from the very beginning: his older sister Xie Wan's “walking blood bank.”
Ever since he could remember, his parents' eyes had always followed his frail, frequently ill sister. He seemed like an unwanted extra in the family, and coldness and neglect were the norm. He studied desperately and knocked on fate's door as the city's top scorer in the college entrance exams, only for his chance to attend a top university to become precarious because his sister said she “couldn't live without him.”
In those bleak days, “Pei Jin” on the other side of the internet was his only light. Their chats and words of encouragement through the screen gave him the strength to carry on. With that support, he finally broke free of his constraints and entered Jing University, the school he had always dreamed of attending.
But when he finally summoned the courage to run toward that light, he ran headlong into an absurd reality: Pei Jin, the person who had accompanied him through the long dark nights, had always believed that the person he was dating online was a girl.
A bond born of misunderstanding suddenly shifted out of place in the sunlight of reality. Standing on the tree-lined paths of Jing University, Xie Xunzhou looked at the radiant figure in the distance and, for the first time, had no idea how to write the next chapter of the future he had fought so hard to reach.
