Taking his father's medical records and silence, Jiang Yan fell from a key high school into the dust of No. 3 Middle School in a small town. He thought that the days would be endlessly gloomy, until he met Lu Ran's icy gaze - that boy who was called "thorny head" by the whole school would give him an umbrella on rainy days, would quietly point out his wrong questions under the desk, and would pull him to beat the worn basketball in the old room.
They test each other in the eyes of prejudice, support each other in the quagmire of family, thinking that if they catch each other, they can break free from the shackles of fate. But when the heavy hammer of reality falls, misunderstandings are entangled like vines, and cruel words are cut like knives, they understand: some likes are thorny salvation, and some dependence is heart-piercing poison. During the years they were separated, Jiang Yan's textbook contained faded band-aids, and Lu Ran's basketball still had the warmth of his fingers. When they met again in a sea of people, they looked at each other with scars all over their bodies, and realized that the entanglement that started in the school uniform had already been engraved in their bones and blood - they had been hurt and missed, but they had never forgotten it.
Purpose: To explore the mutual redemption and painful bond between two broken souls in the quagmire of reality - when the shadow of the original family and the sharp blade of secular prejudice continue to cut into the sincerity of young people, in the pull of approaching and pushing away, they not only see each other's imperfections, but also piece together the true appearance of love. In the end, scars are used as evidence to interpret the weight of life that "you can only know how to cherish after pain", and the courage to still live towards the light in despair.