When Shen Yan was fourteen, the shrill sound of a child's violin in the hospital corridor drove her to take off her headphones.
The player was an eleven-year-old girl with black hair and dazzling golden eyes, but her violin skills were absolutely dreadful.
Then the violin slipped out of the little girl's hands and crashed to the floor.
Shen Yan happened to be passing by. Without a word, she bent down, picked up the violin, and handed it back.
The little girl took it and grinned. "Thanks, big sister."
Shen Yan turned and walked away. She didn't see the little girl behind her hugging the violin, her eyes curving into crescent moons.
[They Meet Again at the Tutoring Center]
Three years later, Shen Yan was seventeen and became Yan Zhao's tutor.
Yan Zhao was fourteen. She rose onto her toes and kissed Shen Yan on the cheek.
"Thanks, big sister."
Shen Yan froze on the spot, her ears burning, then fled in a panic.
It was the first time anyone had kissed her in her life. It was also the last time she would run away.
[Forced to Part]
Shen Yan was eighteen, and Yan Zhao was fifteen.
Shen Yan's mother's condition worsened. She could no longer work as a tutor and had to return to her police post at once.
Before leaving, she used all her ice-based ability to make it snow for Yan Zhao.
She disappeared without a sound or a trace. No goodbye, no explanation.
Yan Zhao thought she had been abandoned.
[Six Years Later]
Under the fluorescent lights of a convenience store.
Yan Zhao was twenty, a violinist. Shen Yan was twenty-three, an undercover police officer.
Theme: The pain of separation, and the ultimate mutual salvation.
