- Male protagonist: Ling Chen, 28 years old, president of Ling Group. He has a cold and decisive personality and a strong desire to control. He is emotionally alienated due to the influence of his family of origin and is used to weighing everything with interests. The appearance is perfect, the life is routine to the point of rigidity, and the desire for warmth is hidden deep in the heart.
- Female protagonist: Su Wan, 20 years old, a sophomore student in the Chinese Department of University A. He comes from an ordinary family, is optimistic and tenacious, relies on scholarships and part-time jobs to maintain his studies, loves literature, has his own small ideals (such as becoming a children's literature writer), has a slightly stubborn personality, and is neither humble nor overbearing.
- Core content: disparity in status, collision of values, confrontation between the shadow of the male protagonist's past and the simple world of the female protagonist, external resistance (family, love rivals, business rivals)