Amber Trade Wind

[Ruthless, brooding school king Qi Nian × sweet, seemingly innocent but secretly calculating top student Wen Ying | Both are each other’s first and only | Reunion after years apart | Mutual healing | Light ensemble cast]

At the start of their second year at Jiangcheng No. 7 High School, returned prodigy Wen Ying lands at the top of the grade.

Everyone thinks she’ll obediently take a seat in the front row with the other top students.

Instead, she walks straight over to the battered school king, Qi Nian, and smiles brightly. “Teacher, I want to sit here. I came to find you.”

Qi Nian doesn’t even look up. His voice is hoarse. “Classmate, looking for a beating?”

Wen Ying blinks her almond-shaped, glistening eyes. “Not a beating. I’m looking for you.”

Seven years ago, in the equipment room, a boy gave a sniffling little girl an orange gummy, then vanished into the dusk.

Seven years later, they meet again.

He has lived through domestic violence, poverty, and endless misery. Bristling with thorns, he uses violence to disguise his vulnerability.

She grew up surrounded by love. Holding the candy from seven years ago, sealed in amber, she throws herself without hesitation into his desolate world.

“Qi Nian, everyone else is afraid of you, but I want to pull you ashore.”

“Miss, don’t waste your effort. I’m rotting in the mud. I don’t deserve your light.”

Her mother tries to tear them apart, and the shackles of their families stand between them.

From the bottom of the class, he grits his teeth and fights his way into the top four hundred.

One orange candy after another. A letter carried by the wind through the winter. Amber preserving a secret crush that went unspoken for seven whole years.

[Excerpted dialogue]

💬“You have to stop spoiling me like this.”

💬“Or what?”

💬“I really will get attached to you.”

💬“Then stay attached. I like having you cling to me.”