When they first met on a rainy day, he dragged his old suitcase and counted the crumpled cash. He stood in the mud in a panic while listening to his biological father's insults. Lin Yueran from the Department of Chemistry and Chu Chongcong from the Department of Fine Arts became each other's sharpest thorns in the dormitory of Northern University.
Poverty and dignity are torn apart, trauma and loneliness are intertwined. There are humiliating shots of him stepping into a cold studio and taking off his clothes to save his seriously ill uncle, and succumbing to the humiliation of a secret corner in order to raise money. Two teenagers whose souls have been crushed by life gradually get closer to each other in the steam of the bathhouse, the temperature of the steamed buns, and the tears in the dark night. However, they are forced to face the storm of exposure on the forum, blackmail from the family, and pressure from the school.
"I will bear half of your debt. I will also share half of your life."
The kiss in despair was as hot as an oath. They joined hands to call the police and resist the world, tempering the glimmer of light in the ashes. This is a redemption about fragmentation and reconstruction - the cross-border integration of the rationality of science students and the madness of art students, the collision and interweaving of the delicacy of the south and the roughness of the north. From the dormitory to the small home, from the rainstorm to the sunset, they finally understood: it is not life that is dirty, but the eyes that stare into life; home is not the eaves, but the hands holding each other.
