Lin Zhenghao and Lu Chenyi were childhood friends and deskmates. He was a mischievous underachiever, while she was a cool, top student. Their innocent friendship hid an unspoken spark. At a class get-together, Lin Zhenghao drank too much to seem cool, then slept with Lu Chenyi while drunk. Too shy and inexperienced, neither of them ever brought it up.
Then tragedy struck. Lu Chenyi's father was assassinated, and her mother died, leaving her an orphan. She dropped out of school and took a job, hiding the secret growing inside her, but was tricked into going to a city in the north. Struggling at the bottom of society, she endured abuse and gave birth to Lin Zhenghao's son. The child had a congenital heart condition, and despite spending everything she had, she couldn't afford to save him. In the end, she lost her little boy. Despairing, Lu Chenyi threw herself into a river.
Meanwhile, Lin Zhenghao assumed Lu Chenyi had left without a word out of spite, and in his youthful recklessness, never looked into it. Later, he served in the military, went into business, built a successful career, and started a family. Years later, he learned by chance that Lu Chenyi had died. He uncovered the hardships she had endured, the child they had lost, and the tragedy caused by his own negligence.
Consumed by endless regret, Lin Zhenghao sank into gambling, destroying his career and family with his own hands. Lonely in old age, he looked back again and again on the childhood love that fate had crushed, lost in endless remorse and longing, with nothing left but a regret he could never undo.
Theme: Sorrow
