When Ye Xingwan first arrives at Starlight Academy, she stumbles into the cool, mint-scented embrace of Lu Yize, the school's top academic genius. He is the top scorer on the high school entrance exam and a distant, untouchable beauty, with a gaze as remote as a thousand-year-old pool. He cuts a dashing figure on the basketball court, yet remains apart from all the commotion. Ye Xingwan cannot understand: why does the steady arm that catches her in front of the notice board, or his indifferent profile as he eats alone in the cafeteria without tasting a thing, stand in such stark contrast to the person she sees in the moonlit, shadowy alley?
Beside the trash bins, he cradles a trembling little life in his palm. His husky voice asks the gentlest question she has ever heard:
"Do you think they deserve a home, too?"
Fate lights the gathering undercurrent with the fuse of a rainstorm.
When a downpour drenches the first day of school, the space he leaves for her beneath his umbrella becomes the only silent, dry fortress in the curtain of rain.
On the monthly exam rankings, his name sits at the top with a score of 1,038, an insurmountable peak. Even more astonishing is the deep blue notebook he casually sets aside: it reveals three god-tier solutions to the hardest physics problem, each stroke of his pen etched with force.
She tries to clear away the fog, only to glimpse a black car speeding through the mouth of an alley on a cold night.
The car door swings open, and Lu Zhenhua, a domineering force in the business world, strides through the dim yellow light:
"Lu Yize!"
"The Lu family's heir shouldn't bend his back for a few stray cats!"
He is a solitary star perched on an altar, yet in her gaze, he falls into the mortal world.
Ye Xingwan tightens her grip on the hand that once held an umbrella to shield her from the rain and picked up a frozen cat:
"Lu Yize, I'll build you a home. Just watch me."
From the Starlight corridors to the university steps, from the college entrance exam to their wedding vows, she is the only variable capable of changing his trajectory.
Their wedding invitation bears the old gate of their alma mater as its emblem. Lu Yize unfolds the candid photo of their first meeting by the notice board and brushes his lips against her earlobe:
"From the moment you lost your way..."
"I've kept the guiding lights on for you my whole life."
