The old laboratory building of Chengnan Middle School hides the inexplicable awkwardness among the teenagers——
Xu Yan is recognized by the whole school as a role model for gentleness. He is ranked among the top three in grades. He will leave umbrellas to students who don't bring rain gear, and he will be gentle when feeding stray cats. He always wears school uniforms that have been washed white, and always has mints in his pockets. He is especially "attentive" to the transfer student Qiu Yu: he secretly stuffs warm rice balls in his drawer, follows him through dark alleys after evening self-study, and even gives up competition training just to help him make up for his missed math. No one knew that Xu Yan had been secretly in love with Qiu Yu for a whole year. Ever since he saw him squatting in the corner of the playground feeding stray dogs on the first day of school, with an unknown softness hidden in his eyes, he had never looked away. But he didn't dare to approach directly, for fear of disturbing this cautious love.
Qiu Yu is a "gloomy shadow" in the last row of the classroom. His school uniform is always buttoned tightly at the collar. He doesn't like to talk. His grades are in the middle of the pack. His classmates always whisper about his "unsociable personality." He is sensitive and self-respecting, and Xu Yan's frequent overtures of kindness are all "charity-like sympathy" in his eyes——
The evening breeze passed through the windows of the laboratory building and blew the test papers on the table. Qiu Yu looked at the disappointment that couldn't be hidden in Xu Yan's eyes, and suddenly understood - some tenderness was never charity, but the boy's unspoken secret love; and his duplicitous resistance was just because he was afraid that this love was too fragile, and he had to muster up all his courage to even get close. It turns out that misunderstandings in youth have nothing to do with malice. They are just two clumsy teenagers secretly guarding the sincerity that they dare not speak out.
Concept: The world of a gloomy boy is colorless until the gentle man breaks in with light and breaks the barriers with his protection day after day, proving that the most touching redemption of youth is "I am willing to dispel all the haze for you."