In the autumn of 2010, as fog blanketed a small coastal city in the north, Lin Zhixia met the aloof Jiang Yubai and the passionate Shen Wang amid her bleak adolescence. Like a faint light over a cold pool, Jiang Yubai illuminated her life with a hidden tenderness. They grew close in the music room, but his secret illness, hereditary dilated cardiomyopathy, family upheavals, and misunderstandings repeatedly drove them apart. Shen Wang remained by their side, protecting them with a warmth as vivid as fireworks, and even gave his life to raise money for Jiang Yubai's surgery. Xu Zhiyan, Jiang Yubai's childhood friend, witnessed the three of them caught in love and resentment, from the emotional ties at the beginning to her eventual acceptance and support. More than a decade passed. Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai clung to their love despite fate's cruel tricks, but in the end they could not overcome death and separation. All that remained was the song “Shattered Snow” and a lifetime by the sea, bearing the deepest longing and regret of their youth...
