At the Coffin

Dual male leads / Bad ending / Campus / Unrequited love / Second chance / Redemption / Heart-wrenching

Calm, reserved top Qin Yiheng x gentle, resilient bottom Wen Shiye

Wen Shiye’s love was the quietest kind. He collected Qin Yiheng’s rough drafts, remembered the songs he listened to, and shared a pair of earphones with him on stormy nights.

Later, Qin Yiheng went off to a wide world without him, while he stayed behind, becoming a stamp on a letter no one would ever claim.

In the summer of 2003, one clumsy lie from Wen Shiye exposed all the cracks beneath top student Qin Yiheng’s perfect facade.

After that, Wen Shiye became his silent shadow, and Qin Yiheng became the blade frozen in ice.

Between them lay a storm that trapped them both, an art book he never dared to give, a letter that would never receive a reply, and a grand, secret love that no one knew about.

Twelve years later, when Qin Yiheng returned to the country, he finally got all the answers:

The spring he had spent half his life searching for had already been buried in that summer they had never spoken of.

Wen Shiye did the two boldest things of his life:

At sixteen, he told a clumsy lie for Qin Yiheng.

And for the long years that followed, he loved him in silence.

He thought the secret would rot away with him. He never knew that the person whose name he had written at the start of every unsent letter was traveling back across twelve years, piecing together a belated vision of him.

“Qin Yiheng, how are you?”

“I’m not. Ever since I lost you, I’ve never been all right.”