On New Year's Eve in 2010, 16-year-old Li Haiyang squatted in the snow and lit a tube of fireworks. The cannon tilted, and a red light penetrated the window on the sixth floor of the residential building opposite - that was the home of classmate Zhao Sen. The fire burned Zhao Sen's parents to death, leaving him an orphan.
Out of guilt, Li Haiyang's mother, the chairman of the factory union, took Zhao Sen back home. From then on, the two of them changed from front and back tables to bunk beds, and from classmates to "brothers" under the same roof. Li Haiyang tried every means to be kind to Zhao Sen: fighting for him, helping him with tutoring, and getting off the top bunk to hold his hand when he had nightmares. Zhao Sen carefully learned how to be loved in this new home - for the first time, he learned that there was a family where no one threw bowls or cursed anyone when eating.
From high school to college, from bunk beds to sharing a rental house, the distance between the two shortened inch by inch. They were admitted to a university in the south together, rented an old staff building by the moat together, and opened a small restaurant called "Chunwang" together after graduation. Li Haiyang thought that as long as he did well enough, he could bury the fire on New Year's Eve in his heart forever.
But he didn't know that Zhao Sen also had a secret.
That fire was never one person's fault.
Purpose: Through the secrets and bonds of two teenagers under extreme circumstances, explore the alternative form of "sin and redemption" - the real redemption is not to offset sin, but two people who bear the same secret choose to bear it together. At the same time, the novel also touches on deep themes such as domestic violence, silent complicity, and how guilt disguises itself as love and is exposed by love.