(Ensemble cast, no System, one female lead, no transmigration, an exceptionally slow-paced story)
Fate has always been cruel, but once, it showed us favor.
Song Yi lost her right arm in a car accident. Trapped every day beneath the stares of others, she grew insecure and sensitive, shrinking into the shadows, afraid to face the world.
Li Lang was trapped in the distorted system of Chinese education. His mother’s crushing pressure, imposed in the name of love, and the endless mental torment gradually ground down his youthful spirit. Depression took hold, and he struggled to survive a suffocating life.
Yue Huanyu was born into a life of regret. Her mother was forced into marriage and abandoned her, while her gambling-addicted father coldly cast her aside.
Ding Liren lost his parents when he was young and had to live under someone else’s roof, already struggling to get by. Then, in his second year of high school, a diagnosis of terminal stomach cancer began the countdown on his short life.
Four high school students, battered and abandoned by fate, each bore invisible wounds and sorrows, struggling to walk alone through a bleak and oppressive youth.
They had seen the world’s coldest cruelty and tasted loneliness and despair, believing that nothing but endless darkness awaited them.
But fate brought them together in the desolation of youth...
Though fate was cruel, they were fortunate to find one another in the vast sea of people. They became each other’s glimmer of light, fighting back against an unjust fate together, until they accompanied Ding Liren through the final stretch of his life...
“Do you know why I like Jasmine-brand drinks?”
“I do...”
“Jasmine to send you off, hoping you won’t leave. I only hope you won’t have to suffer like this in your next life...”
