Each person is an island, waiting to echo from another coastline.
Li Kuiqing is a new guest who drifted to Wuyou Island. Hailing from Tangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, she grew up in a system that favored boys over girls, and developed a pragmatic and simple survival skills that are cold on the outside and hot on the inside. Like a tenacious sunflower, she strives to grow towards the sunshine, burying the past deep in her heart, and finds a place to live in a special education school on the island, firmly believing that she is the only one to rely on.
Xiayu Road is an old guest trapped in Wuyou Island. He has everything seemingly perfect - a sunny smile, a smart mind, and a happy family. However, the betrayal and trauma of his friend's sudden death opened a huge gap in his heart, making him like a brightly lit but untouched fortress, undergoing a long and lonely self-reconstruction under the shell of busy work in the community.
A seemingly accidental encounter made these two islands look at each other from a distance. She only saw his warm smile, but she didn't know that the storm in his heart had just subsided. He only saw her calm and independent, but he did not realize that she had trudged through the mud.
A person who is afraid of being sincere and wrong will habitually take a step back and hide his good feelings under the ridicule of "eight-treasure porridge". One is afraid of disturbing the other, so he chooses to keep the awkwardness of the first meeting a secret, and only approaches slowly with sincerity.
This is the collision and temptation of two equally proud and equally injured souls. They pull, they lean in, they vacillate between self-preservation and compulsion.
How we carry the scars of our past and still bravely approach others.
True love is not about consuming each other, but about two isolated islands happily discovering that while remaining independent, becoming an archipelago may be more freeing than being alone.
"Do you believe it? One day, we will no longer be each other's guests."
Concept: individual independence, "being seen" and "allowed"