Lin Yue, a 25-year-old Chinese exchange student, met Luca Rossi, a 52-year-old Italian professor at Bocconi Business School in Milan. He is a business legend, a ski instructor, and a critical academic authority. In class, she was his only student who could answer all his sharp questions; on the snowy mountains, she was his partner who could keep up with his extreme pace.
Age, identity, and scars from the past are deep valleys. But above the snow line of the Alps, on the edge of the cliff of reason and desire, they embarked on a dangerous trial. Beneath the cracks in the spring melt are suppressed passion and irreversible determination.
This is a game about power, taboo and rebirth. When the boundaries of the classroom are blurred in the snow and fog, and the rules of the current half-life collapse in the face of each other, they must make a choice: whether to safely retreat to the secular track, or step into the beautiful and deadly traceless deep snow, facing an avalanche that can reshape their lives.
Love is the riskiest investment, and they are all gamblers unwilling to stop their losses.