Chen Yao is a nineteen-year-old student-athlete and competitive swimmer. Proud and ambitious, he falls in love with Yang Jing, who is eight years older than him.
Just as they confess their feelings for each other, he ignores his leg injury and nearly drowns during a national team competition. He can never swim again.
At twenty, facing a life in ruins, Chen Yao travels abroad for treatment on his legs and leaves Yang Jing without a word.
Just as he's about to recover, his parents, who have been caring for him, are suddenly caught in an accident and both die.
At twenty-one, Chen Yao returns to China alone and scrapes by on other people's pity.
When he learns that Yang Jing once tried to end his life because of him, he is consumed by guilt and despair and wants to end everything. Yang Jing saves him.
At twenty-two, Chen Yao has no qualifications and no job. He can't swim, and the manga series he once attempted ended in failure.
Encouraged by Yang Jing, he decides to take the art school entrance exam and start an undergraduate degree at an art academy. This is his diary of preparing for the exam.
* This story is based on the author's personal interpretation. Anything that differs from reality is fictional, so please don't scrutinize it.
Theme: How to face anxiety and the unknown.
