[Content warning: The work’s tags were not selected by the author. Includes a female lead | Love triangle and heartbreak | Extensive supporting-character storylines | A slow-burning, emotionally tangled romance]
On a rainy night during the Qingming Festival, Su Yemin throws herself into the lake. In a desperate drowning, she ends a love affair that began as a farce.
Han Yannian never imagined that the fake relationship he had entered into to placate his gravely ill mother would drive her to the brink. He thought they were only pretending, but as they spent each day together, he grew unknowingly dependent on her and fell for her. He deliberately avoided the deep, unspoken bond between himself and Wen Zhongqing, yet when Wen risked his life to save someone and fell unconscious with a high fever, Han’s hidden concern and panic came spilling out.
The wounds of his upbringing, his mother’s heavy expectations, his belated love for Su Yemin, and the feelings for Wen Zhongqing he dared not face have trapped Han Yannian in an emotional maelstrom.
On one side is the girl he personally pushed into the abyss; on the other, the boy who has done everything to protect him. At last, Han is forced to confront the questions that haunt his soul: What is he living for, and who should he let himself fall for?
