Zhang Yingzhen is an ordinary county middle school teacher. During the day, she teaches chemistry on the podium, handles inspections and evaluations in the office, and seeks justice for a bullied student in the teaching office. In the afternoon, she walked to the river alone, raised her binoculars, and watched the night herons squatting on the rocks and the egrets gliding against the water. Only in those birds could she find a moment of peace.
Xu Lian is her student. Thin, silent, and overachieving. She didn't cry when her classmates overturned her lunch box in the classroom, nor did she cry when her schoolbag was taken away and thrown on the road. But when Zhang Yingzhen comforted her and pushed a bowl of hot noodle soup in front of her, she almost couldn't hold it back.
One is a young teacher who is burdened with the shadow of his younger sister's suicide, and the other is a young girl struggling with domestic violence and poverty. They saw their incomplete shadows in each other, and they became the only rope that the other could hold on to.
However, when Zhang Yingzhen chooses a path of no return in order to protect Xu Lian, will she reveal the truth, or will she use a new lie to cover up the mistake that was caused by her?
Concept: When the system fails and justice is absent, a female teacher who fails to save her sister decides to use her own way to protect the girl who looks like her sister in front of her. Not all resistance is fair, but all "not giving up" counts.