• Protagonist A (Shen Yan):
• Gender: Male
• Birthday: 2/29
• Background: A seemingly gentle and introverted architecture student, with a wealthy family background but indifferent emotions. His mother does not have many demands on him and only hopes that he will be healthy. But Shen Yan has a hidden distrust of feelings in his heart (his father cheated and left when he was a child). They are used to suppressing emotions with rationality and have pessimistic expectations that relationships will end sooner or later.
• Protagonist B (Lu Ran):
• Gender: Male
• Birthday: 8/12
• Background: A rebellious transfer student from the Art Department. His father died when he was young. He grew up in a single-parent family. His mother was seriously ill. He went to school and worked odd jobs to make ends meet. He has an outgoing yet sensitive personality, uses a sharp shell to protect his fragile heart, and has an almost paranoid desire for "stability". During his relationship with Shen Yan, he regarded him as his only hope.
• Core conflict: The two are attracted to each other due to differences in family, personality, and values, but due to the core conflict of "distrust of feelings" and "fear of instability", they repeatedly get closer and push away, falling into the pull of "love that cannot be achieved".
• The tone of the story: reality tends to be sour, focusing on the inner struggle of the characters, delicate and forbearing emotions, avoiding violent plots, and using daily details to reflect the powerlessness of "asking for something but not getting it" (such as unsent messages, passing silence, and hesitant hugs)
Intention: Even if we know that everything will end eventually, we still dare to choose each other in the limited time.