At eighteen, Chu Yi met the thirty-year-old Bai Ke.
He was a cool, distant teacher at the front of the classroom.
She was the student who silently looked up to him.
Throughout her four years at university, she fell for him again and again.
They never dared meet each other’s eyes. What they felt was far from innocent.
But between them lay a confession never spoken, a barrier they could never cross.
Until Chu Yi’s best friend bravely approached Bai Ke, and he didn’t turn her away.
Chu Yi left.
Bai Ke remained, adrift in a loveless marriage.
For the next six years, she relived every moment of love and regret in her dreams, while he played the distracted husband in the prison of his marriage.
Their reunion six years later broke the long silence.
At last, she found the courage to recount each of her dreams, as if taking stock of every regret from her youth.
“Bai Ke, you’re in every one of my dreams.”
By then, he was free, but worn down by exhaustion. He longed to embrace her, yet felt covered in dust and unworthy of her.
He took a step back.
She took two steps forward.
More than a decade of longing, six years of dreams,
all waited for an answer.
When the deepest restraint meets the bravest confession,
can all those years spent apart
be rewarded with a lifetime holding each other close?
This is a story about time, courage, and finally finding your way to each other.
