It is the height of summer in their first year of high school, and the classroom is buzzing.
Lin Kexin is an island apart from the crowd.
Cool and quiet, guarded from head to toe, she is used to carrying every wound alone.
Ji Lingxi is the school bully everyone knows for his reckless swagger.
He is playful and roguish, acting carefree and using his smile to hide a world of gloom.
No one knows that the faded old trinket in his palm holds all the years of his youth.
At dusk in their childhood, she reached out to pull him from his miserable darkness.
Years later, he recognizes her at a glance beneath her armor.
He sees the vulnerability she keeps buried and understands the little fangs she hides.
She sees through his pretend happiness and touches the loneliness he keeps deep inside.
“You don't need anyone to save you.”
“But I can always be the place you retreat to.”
Cool, resilient top student × outwardly warm, inwardly cold school bully with a soft side
They save each other, becoming each other's glimmer of light.
This time, he has come for her, to keep her safe and at peace through every year to come.
