He was Chen Ye, the city's top scorer on the high school entrance exam.
At home, he had a seriously ill mother and a father addicted to gambling.
Proud and unyielding, he was forced to live in the dirt.
In middle school, he went to class in someone else's place.
From afar, he once saw Lin Wan, bright as a little sun.
One glance was all it took for him to hide her away in his heart for his entire youth.
They met again at the high school opening ceremony.
She was a silly beauty adored by everyone;
he was a quiet, aloof academic prodigy.
She came last in her year
and hid from trouble in the little shop where he worked.
Before leaving, she quietly left him some money, clumsy yet kind.
When people mocked her for being nothing but a pretty face, a beautiful airhead,
she was so angry she wanted to confront them,
but he grabbed her and held her back.
"Don't go."
"I'll tutor you."
From then on, the poorest top student in school
became the exclusive tutor to a wealthy young heiress.
He taught her how to solve problems and how to grow,
and slowly revealed the feelings he'd kept hidden for years.
She was the only light in his dark years;
he was the steady shore she could rely on as she stumbled along the road to adulthood.
From youthful heartbeats to standing side by side at the top,
their love was mutual, pure, and burning hot.
Do you believe in the light?
He did.
Because there was only one light in his life, Lin Wan, from beginning to end.
Not bad, good-looking