Ji Zeyu and Shen Mengxiao were high school deskmates. He was lively and rambunctious, while she was aloof and taciturn. Shen Mengxiao was the school’s famous ice-cold beauty: she hardly spoke, never smiled, and kept everyone at arm’s length, like a block of ice that could never be warmed. Only later did he learn that she wasn’t cold. She had simply gone so long without anyone truly loving her that she’d learned to lock her heart away.
The theme: Love is patient companionship, day after day, for ten years. A girl so starved of affection that she froze herself into ice, and a boy who slowly warms her with awkward tenderness. From sharing a desk to walking down the aisle, they prove in the gentlest, steadiest way that true love isn’t a grand whirlwind. It’s being willing to spend a lifetime helping someone believe they deserve to be loved.
