Eighteen-year-old Lin Xingchen, clutching the full scholarship admission notice, squeezed into the city's most expensive private school from the county seat. On the first day of school, she was wearing a white shirt worth thirty-nine and nine yuan, standing among the crowd wearing ARMANI uniforms, like a speck of dust that strayed into the Milky Way.
She just wants to quietly get admitted to Tsinghua University and let her mother, who runs a small restaurant, live a good life.
But she happened to attract Gu Sichen's attention. The school director's son, who was number one in grade, was as cold and distant as an iceberg that would never melt—yet he appeared in front of her again and again: sending her home, helping her out, and saying "you don't have to carry it alone" when she was in the most awkward situation.
Just when Lin Xingchen thought this was just a love affair on campus that transcended classes, his father, who had disappeared for twelve years, suddenly returned and uncovered an old case that had been buried for thirteen years - and the behind-the-scenes case of that old case pointed directly at Gu Sichen's family.
She is the daughter of the whistleblower. He is the son of vested interests.
They stood on both sides of the chasm, holding each other's hands, but separated by a whole world of prejudice. And all they can do is to grow up hard enough to be strong enough to protect the people they want to protect, to stand in the sun and love each other confidently.
This is the story of a star rising from the dust. This is the story of a young man who spent his entire youth answering "I am".
