Well-Behaved, Long-Suffering Top Student x Wild, Resilient Working-Class Academic Ace
🔖 Realistic Senior Year | Mutual Healing and Redemption | Family of Origin | School Life | Competitive Volleyball | Strong but Tragic Seme
Chen Xuyi lives surrounded by suffocating suspicion and rumors. He's used to holding back and bearing everything alone.
Qin Yeming is trapped in a chaotic reality, covered in scars. He grits his teeth through everything and never expects to be treated kindly.
The late-night study room during their final year of high school becomes their refuge.
Practicing problems, climbing over walls, volleyballs flying back and forth, and an awkwardly offered tube of burn ointment.
Sharp words, cautious probing, and wounded pride pull them back and forth. Neither is willing to expose a weakness easily.
One bears the shackles of mental anguish, the other is covered in old physical wounds.
The world sees only their outer shells. Only they understand the wounds beneath each other's skin.
You teach me to grow some thorns. I'll teach you to let yourself be loved.
When you fall, someone will hear the impact.
Theme: This isn't just about comforting each other. It's about two people filling in the gaps in each other's personalities.
One learns to say no instead of always obeying; the other learns to rely on someone instead of shouldering everything alone.
Volleyball as metaphor, the sound of a fall as the title.
Falling is never silent. Someone will hear you hit the ground and reach out to catch you.
