[Two male leads + mystery + younger gong + coming-of-age + happy ending]
Jiang Wen × Jiang Yanyun
Two brothers with no blood ties, and one shared secret: they killed their father.
Ten years ago, on a rainy night, their alcoholic father died a gruesome death at home.
Seventeen-year-old Jiang Yanyun believed he had killed him with poison. He quit school, took a job, and vowed to spend his life providing for Jiang Wen as he grew up.
Jiang Wen kept a secret of his own. He studied hard to become a lawyer, hoping one day to grow strong enough to shoulder all the responsibility.
Ten years relying on each other, ten years falling asleep in each other's arms.
In the soil of sin, a love that should never have grown began to bloom in secret.
When they parted, Jiang Yanyun fought back his sorrow. “I'll take the blame alone. Never come back.”
Jiang Wen said, “If we're going to hell, we're going together.”
Each protected the other in their own way. An entire Pacific Ocean lay between them, yet they fought to confess and tried to keep the other out of the case.
But the truth has no pity for those who imagine things that aren't there.
Then a murder committed in the same manner tore open a long-sealed case file.
Expired poison, substituted chemicals, a concealed cause of death, a visitor who came in the dead of night... As all the evidence was pieced together, the bizarre and sinister truth gradually surfaced. Human nature is always fragile, yet threaded through with a soft, resilient sincerity.
For ten years, they had protected each other over a crime that had never been committed.
“If the crime was fake, what about the love?”
“That's real.”
“From beginning to end, it never changed.”
