1998, Northeast, the courtyard of Hongqi Machinery Factory.
When the wave of layoffs hit, Li Nian was seventeen years old. His grades were at the bottom, there were only a few pieces of meat in the bowl at home, and he was never taken seriously.
Zhao Yue, who grew up in the same school, called her a "waste snack" for more than ten years, secretly put the money he had saved for several years into her tuition, turned around and went to a free military school, and never looked back.
She later found out - it was him who held her hand in the darkness in the flood; it was him who funded the tuition fees from "good Samaritans"; he said the words "I'll be back when you graduate", and she never forgot them.
He hid all his tenderness under disgust and turned "I love you" into a "waste snack".
