#Youth Angst #Secret Campus Crush #Mutual Salvation #The Beauty of a Tragic Ending #Dysfunctional Family #Long-Distance Love #Healing and Heartbreak #Realism #Coming of Age #Pure Love
Gao Minghao is a socially anxious shut-in with mediocre grades whose greatest hobby is watching anime. The day Ying Mengwan transfers to his school, she smiles at him, and he thinks, “The romance route has begun.” He doesn’t know that the girl who smiles at everyone is only using her smile to hide a soul wounded by her family.
He awkwardly draws closer, starting with giving her an orange-flavored candy each day. She begins to depend on him without realizing it, starting with teaching him math. They see the vulnerabilities each has hidden away, and become each other’s only light in the darkness.
From high school to college, from Tianjin to Beijing, they weather long-distance separation, arguments, and all the nights when they wonder whether they can go on. At last, she buys a high-speed train ticket to Tianjin to make up with him. Carrying an apology letter and a gift, she sets off with a smile.
That train never reached its destination.
He survived, and spent the rest of his life writing that extinguished light into a story that would never end.
When will my angel come to my side?