Yan Yijie, an aloof genius from the Yan family, is exiled amid an internal family power struggle to Yunlan International School, where he becomes deskmates with Qin Wan, the sunny eldest daughter of the Qin family. The boy enters the classroom with a hard, guarded edge about him, the black strap of his schoolbag digging into his shoulder, as if he has carried all the storms of the Yan family in with him. The girl by the window happens to turn around. Afternoon sunlight filters through the gaps between the plane tree leaves and falls on her upturned lips, so bright it almost hurts to look at.
Years later, he wields power in the business world, his once-youthful features now sharp and mature. She shines in her own field, her smile now confident and resolute. At a glittering banquet, crystal lights scatter brilliant reflections, and the crowd suddenly falls silent. He looks up; she turns. Their eyes meet through the throng. Time seems to flow backward in that instant, and every buried memory surges to the surface: the profile beside their desks, the evening breeze on the rooftop, the letter never sent, the confession never spoken.
Fate has taken the long way around, but in the end, it brings them back to where they began. This time, they are no longer young people at the mercy of their families, and they no longer have to bury their regrets in the folds of time. After all these years, they slowly walk toward each other, ready to finally say the words they owed one another back then.
