Cai Xiao is the lowest-ranked student in the city's strongest senior-year class. Her desk mate, Yin Luo, is the top student in their grade, yet powerful elites control him and strip him of all dignity. To help Yin Luo escape his filthy shackles, she puts herself on the line and sets off down a road of no return.
Wang Sheng is a working-class man from Yuxi Village, ruggedly handsome and powerfully built. His life is hard, and he spends every day struggling to survive. Then he falls in love with Cai Xiao at first sight on a bus.
Their fates intertwine in a city ablaze with lights and prosperity. They fail again and again, then rise again and again, as love blooms into a flower of blood and tears amid one obstacle after another.
