Lin Wan's first eighteen years were supported by the chirping of cicadas under the old locust tree in a small southern town and the warm palms of his grandma. Her parents had gone to the north as early as she could remember, and only sent back crumpled remittance slips. She thought "home" was her grandma's old wicker chair, the cured meats that dried in the yard, and the shiny silver bracelet - those were the thoughts her grandma gave her when she said, "Wear it every night from now on, and find someone who really cares about you."
In the summer when she was eighteen years old, her grandmother left. Her mother, Zhang Hui, suddenly came back with her brother Lin Yang, who was five years younger than her. She said that "the family wanted to reunite," but she was stuffed into a small second bedroom in a narrow rental house, where she was asked to wash, cook, and tutor her brother every day. Even her joy of going to college was diluted by her mother's words, "We happen to go to the same school as your brother, so we can take care of him." Holding her grandma's silver bracelet, she felt for the first time that the so-called "family love" turned out to be so heavy.
In college, she met Shen Hao. The boy who helped her up during military training and said, "You look independent, but actually you also need someone's love." Gave her the first taste of being cared about. She was kind to him from the bottom of her heart, helping him write papers, using her scholarship to buy him gifts, and even accommodating her ignorant brother for him. But in the end, on her birthday, she saw him holding the hand tied with flowers and holding the birthday gift that should have been hers. Shen Hao's contempt was like a knife: "Besides me, who would want a girl like you who has no father and no mother to love you?"
She cried and hid in the library, but ran into an embrace that smelled of cedar. Lu Shiyan knelt down and helped her pick up the book that had fallen due to trembling. His fingertips accidentally touched the silver bracelet on her wrist, and he only said softly...
