She was a wild fire that charged headlong into everything; he was an island that never budged. The year the fire burned onto the island, seventeen-year-old Shen Yu learned for the first time that a racing heart wasn’t always the illness’s fault.
Theme: Two children whose childhoods had been taken from them by fate rescued each other at sixteen. Love isn’t medicine, but it is the match that makes someone willing to reach for it. Li Ye didn’t cure Shen Yu’s illness; she simply made him want to “try to get better” for the first time. His real recovery was always something he had to achieve himself, one step at a time, climbing all 144 steps, one by one.
