-- I once found a ray of light in the abyss. Later, the light went out, and I became the one who carried the lamp.
Seventeen-year-old Rong Xiao thought that life was nothing but one long farewell.
Her parents were divorced, her relatives had grown distant, and even the last alley was about to be demolished... She gripped a razor blade and prepared to say goodbye to herself in Pear Blossom Alley, the place she knew best from childhood.
Then a boy named Ni Zheng, head drenched in sweat and a stray dog at his side, barged recklessly into her world.
He said, "Rong Xiao, I'm glad to meet you again."
And so the cold, quiet house filled with the warmth of daily life. More place settings appeared on the empty dining table, and even the little dog named Xiao Huang would wait at the alley entrance, wagging its tail, for her to come home.
He remembered that she loved water chestnut cakes, altered her old clothes so they would fit again, and held her trembling hand through a stormy night.
He was like a faint beam of light, stubbornly shining into her dust-covered youth.
Rong Xiao thought their days could stay this warm forever.
Until her grandmother fell ill, and the cost of surgery loomed like a mountain.
Ni Zheng told her, "Don't be afraid. I have a way."
Then he turned and headed toward that glittering, dangerous world.
Later, Rong Xiao often thought of that evening: the boy in his faded school uniform, waving to her at the entrance to Pear Blossom Alley, sunset filling his eyes.
He said, "Xiao Xiao, once Grandma gets better, I'll cook for you for the rest of my life. How does that sound?"
"Reading Guide"
A healing campus story about sharing a home, with a realistic look at the dark side of show business.
Warm daily life and mutual salvation in the early chapters; twists of fate, protection, and bonds in the later chapters.
Theme: Later, she walked into the night with a knife in her hand and the starlight he had given her in her arms.
