At seventeen, Shen Yuanshu is the ever-gentle, warm-hearted class monitor of Class 1, Grade 12, and the all-around top student in her classmates’ eyes.
No one knows that her heart has been fragile since childhood, making even the simple pleasure of running freely in PE class seem out of reach.
The arrival of transfer student Gu Wang is like a stone dropped into her peaceful life.
Then an old, yellowed paper airplane slips from his schoolbag. Its unmistakable crease instantly stirs Shen Yuanshu’s memories.
A long-buried story from the hospital ten years ago comes rushing back. The quiet little boy who used to sit on a bench, whom she comforted and taught to fold paper airplanes, gradually merges with the cool, distant young man before her.
“This paper airplane?” She ran her fingertips over its tail and asked softly, “Was it you?”
Gu Wang gazed at her, his eyes full of a search and a wait that had lasted ten years.
When her medical exam results flashed red again, and Shen Yuanshu was forced to give up PE, secretly crying in an empty stairwell, Gu Wang found her.
“It’s okay if you can’t run.” He looked at her reddened eyes, his gaze deep and resolute. “I’ll teach you to play soccer. Just like you taught me to fold paper airplanes back then, we’ll take it slowly.”
As children, she gave him the courage to soar. Now it was his turn to carefully protect her whole world.
