Dancing in the Silence

[Two female leads + modern setting + teacher and student + intangible cultural heritage + a touch of bittersweet angst + redemption + slow burn]

[Affectionate, lively, clingy puppy of a student x outwardly cold but inwardly warm, gentle yet stubborn teacher]

She teaches her lion dance; she teaches her how to wake up.

Everyone thinks she is dancing. Only she knows that she is falling.

Su Yuji is the last inheritor of the lion dance tradition in Zheshi Village.

Whenever the gongs and drums sound and the lion's head rises, the onlookers cheer and applaud. Only her fingertips grow cold.

And Shi Huan is an unexpected wanderer who lost her way.

The summer after the college entrance exams, she accidentally stumbled into a village that couldn't be found on any map. The moment she saw Su Yuji, she decided: I want to become her student.

With a ten-year age gap and opposite temperaments, one wants to escape but can't, while the other wants to stay but can't hold on.

It takes Shi Huan the whole summer to understand that Su Yuji was never teaching her lion dance. She was teaching her how to make peace with herself amid the beat of drums no one else could hear.

She dances where no one can hear, and cries when no one is around.

And love is the only spring that can awaken the lion.