After taking a break from school for a year, Cheng Yi hid the medicine bottle deep in his school bag and returned to the senior high school classroom. On the first day, Xu Fang, her new deskmate, pushed a bottle of hand-squeezed orange juice onto her desk and never asked her why she took medicine or why her hands were shaking.
The two people were like two wounded animals, testing each other with silence. Until Cheng Yi collapsed after the monthly exam, Xu Fang took her to skip class and go see the sea, telling her "it's okay to be unhappy." They agreed to take the exam in the south, one going to Xiamen and the other to Fuzhou.
But Xu Fang's world collapsed first - his father was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption, and his mother was hospitalized for a heart attack. The man who brought her orange juice every day turned his fingertips white for the first time.
Cheng Yi pushed the orange juice back to him: "It's my turn to accompany you."
From hiding medicine to stopping medicine, from pretending to be normal to accepting vulnerability, from swallowing pills alone to sharing an orange candy - at the age of seventeen, they supported each other in the clumsiest way, walked through their own storms, and ran to the sea together.
