Childhood friends who grew up together from the time they wore split-crotch pants, twenty years of pretending to be nothing more than close friends, all shattered in a drunken midnight moment.
Xu Wang had always believed Chen Jin would be his unchanging friend for life.
Until that birthday night, when the boy laid bare the feelings he'd kept buried for years. His scorching kiss pulled them both into a forbidden, feverish love.
After falling for him, Xu Wang tried to accept a love that crossed the line of friendship.
But Chen Jin's possessiveness, etched into his very bones, was an airtight net.
He wanted all of Xu Wang's affection, to be the only one who belonged to him, and for Xu Wang to see no one else in his world.
Arguments, silent treatment, restraint, suffocation.
The heavy, burning love slowly squeezed away every chance Xu Wang had to breathe. The sensitive, gentle boy was crushed beneath its intensity, unable to escape or break free.
When the fireworks had burned out, all that remained was a heap of ash.
Chen Jin guarded his cold, shattered memories, walking alone through a world without light toward his end.
This is a tragic love story that begins with youthful obsession and ends with two people dying together.
At the furthest extreme of love, they sleep together in the ashes.
Theme: Misguided devotion is not salvation, and possessiveness taken too far is not love.
