Fireworks in the Tenth Year, You in the Tenth Year

[Female Lead's Rebirth] + [Male Lead's Redemption]

At sixteen, on a sweltering afternoon filled with the din of cicadas, Lin Weixi fell in love with Jiang Yichen, a boy who shone like the sun. In their innocence, they made a "ten-year promise," vowing to spend the rest of their lives together beneath a grand display of fireworks.

He thought love meant giving: an unlimited supplementary card and a sixteen-thousand-eight-hundred-yuan coat that couldn't get wet, spoiling her like a princess in a display window. He didn't know that, to her, they were instruments of torture.

Trying to become worthy of his light, she knelt on the floor of a karaoke bar to pour drinks and endured endless nights on a hard-seat train. Then, on a night of torrential rain, he tossed banknotes into the mud, crushing the last of her self-respect along with them.

Bending down in the rain, she picked up the money, and with it, the pieces of herself.

Three years later, after earning her first fortune with nothing but her pen, she stood radiant beneath the spotlights. He came to her with roses that were too late, his eyes red as he begged her to come back. She merely took a polite step backward. "Jiang, do we know each other?"

Later, the ten-year promise came due. Grand fireworks lit up the night sky above the entire city, just as promised. Jiang Yichen stood high above the clouds, with a sea of lights behind him, but all he held was a cold death notice.

It turns out some love can cross mountains and seas, but not death or class. This is a story about redemption and growth, but one that ultimately loses to fate.