About growth and redemption, about pull and collision, about her emerging from a cocoon and becoming a butterfly and him, the bright star of the galaxy.
Cheng Nianen's adolescence began with an escape.
The domestic violence and infidelity of the biological father are nightmares engraved in the bones and blood. It wasn't until her mother spent half her life sending the man to prison and taking her and her taciturn brother to move away from the city that she finally dared to breathe without the smell of blood.
She looks gentle and quiet, but inside she is full of defensive thorns. She is sober and independent, like a rose struggling to branch out in the ruins, ready to escape again at any time.
Zhou Liangrui's adolescence was an endless penance.
He comes from an ordinary family and has mediocre talents. He has seen his parents bend their backs in order to survive, so he desperately wants to stand up straight. His excellence was earned through countless late nights of anxiety and self-doubt. He has extremely upright views and upright conduct, but he is deeply trapped in the endless internal friction of "fear that he will eventually be mediocre."
Two souls struggling to grow up in the quagmire of their original families bumped into each other in the morning light of the small town.
He didn't dare to promise easily, fearing that the heavy burden he was carrying would drag her down;
She didn't dare to truly rely on her, fearing that the fortress she had finally built would collapse again.
Later, Cheng Nianen realized that there really was a kind of person in this world who would try his best to hold up a waterproof umbrella for her even if he was crumbling in the wind and rain.
"I have seen you at your most broken, so I want to help you put it back together."
Intent: Real growth is not numbness under pain, but overcoming the injustice of fate, feeling pain, and embracing oneself riddled with holes.