Li Jilin lived like a cicada—empty, fragile, stuck in the gap between two failed postgraduate entrance examinations, unable to move.
For the last glimmer of hope, she came to City A and rented a temporary shell to prepare for the exam. But the shell shattered and she was caught off guard, and she was kicked out by reality.
After failing the postgraduate entrance examination and having his rented house seized by the court, Li Jilin felt that his life was terrible.
By chance, she met him again - Lin Xuyan, a person she could not avoid.
She moved into his house and made three stipulations: she would just take him in and not talk about old relationships.
She thought he would be indifferent, mocking, and laugh at her like a winner. But he used the most practical actions to catch her every falling moment.
Lin Xuyan never told her that he had never complained when they broke up, and it was no accident that he took her in now. His world is also in turmoil - the battle with his mentor is about to end, the relationship with his father is frozen, and his cautious emotions are suppressing his heart that is ready to move.
Two people who should keep their distance the most have become each other's only safe haven in the same mess. Until one day she suddenly woke up: she relied on him, like a drowning man holding on to driftwood.
But to actually get ashore, she needs to swim by herself. And love may begin with an awkward acceptance, and finally end with the rebirth of two hearts side by side.
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Four young people who grew up in a small town struggled to transform into adult shells at the crossroads of graduation.
In the unfamiliar soil of City A, they exchanged fragility for courage, displaying each broken self into an exhibition - growth is not about becoming a new person, but about recognizing the buried old self and giving it new life with your own hands.
This city will eventually remember: some transformation, as silent as cicadas, but deafening.
▷ Li Jilin × Lin Xuyan | Sober pessimist × Silent promoter of sinking
People with high cognitive and emotional differentiation × Highly rational and self-consistent personality
▷ Childhood Sweethearts + Reunion + Two-way Redemption | "You picked up my empty cicada shed, but you recognized my complete old soul."
"Lin Xuyan, loving me is a high-risk investment."
"By coincidence, I specialize in clinical critical care.
No betrayal
no female
sweet article
Realistic
Purpose: Healing
