“Music is freedom, but I’m trapped beneath the stage lights from when I was nine.”
Lin Xingwan is a piano prodigy at a conservatory, but childhood trauma keeps her from performing in front of others. Then, one April, she meets Gu Chen beneath the cherry blossoms.
He picks up the bow she dropped in alarm and hears the fear and brilliance hidden in her music. A week later, they become partners for their art psychology course, and their assigned topic is “The Psychological Impact of an Audience’s Gaze on Performers.”
Everyone says Gu Chen is the icy prince of the finance department, born into a prominent family and utterly out of reach. But only Lin Xingwan knows...
He plays arrangements of her favorite songs in the practice room late at night;
He makes sure warm water is waiting backstage before every one of her performances;
When she loses her nerve, he tells her, “Don’t be afraid. I’m right here.”
And when the pressure from Gu Chen’s family comes crashing down, and she finally takes the international stage only to suffer an accident, he holds her hand and says:
“Lin Xingwan, music is your wings, and I’m your home on the ground.”
“Fly as far as you want. When you’re tired, I’ll always be here waiting for you.”
From campus to the wedding aisle, from the cherry trees to the Golden Hall.
This is a decade-long journey of mutual salvation, an exquisite romance of “I’ll help you overcome your fear of the stage, and you’ll heal my inability to love.”
A gentle yet resilient violin prodigy × a wealthy heir who seems cold but is actually warm and considerate
