The fallen sycamore leaves cover the entire school road, hiding two similar feelings of loneliness.
Shen Nian lives in a depressing daily life where her parents push each other for custody. Home is a suffocating cage. In the convenience store where she escaped late at night, she met Jiang Zhiyu, a cool scholar. He silently handed over a box of milk, and in the blink of an eye he deliberately drew a clear line with her.
Only later did she learn about Jiang Zhiyu's desolate past. His parents divorced early, his father had a new love outside the country, and his mother went abroad and never came back, leaving him to live a lonely life in city B.
Once they were divided into classes, the two of them sat next to each other. A desk separated the distance, but it could not separate the two of them from the same brokenness.
Everyone only saw Jiang Zhiyu as cold and unapproachable, but Shen Nian understood his disguised defensiveness; everyone thought that Shen Nian was quiet and well-behaved, but Jiang Zhiyu only saw the sadness in her heart that she could not express.
There is no grand heartfelt confession. During the boring and long high school years, two children who lack love comfort each other through the trivial daily life and piece together their incomplete youth.
Purpose: Meeting cannot erase the cracks left by family life, and no one can completely save another person. But the two lonely people's brief mutual dependence gave their gloomy youth a glimmer of light worth remembering.