He thought he would be stuck in this quagmire his whole life.
Chen Jin lives on the bottom floor of "Rusty Water Town". His parents died young, his grandmother was sick, and he had a sister who was born aphasic and needed his protection. This is the edge of civilization, where fists are harder than textbooks and smoke is clearer than dreams. He is not willing to fall, but when he carries the weight of a family, even looking up to the sky seems luxurious.
He thought that escaping would cut off all alienation.
Gu Yanche was "sent" with a ticket back to the run-down town where his biological father lived. His mother's hesitation in front of his new family declared the complete bankruptcy of his urban life. With a cold arrogance and disbelief of "nothing more than that", he stepped into his father's dim old building filled with the smell of alcohol, and entered a completely different life.
Then, they met in the back row of class 3 (seven) of high school.
He taught him that not all love is bright and beautiful, some are buried deep in the silent steamed buns and drunken regrets.
He lights him up, the distance is not out of reach, the first step is to dare to dream of a different tomorrow.
They are the hands that suddenly stretch out from the edge of the cliff where each other falls; they are the only "accomplices" who confirm each other's temperature in the cold world.
