Su Yao placed third in the county exams. In five years, she was the only girl from her village to get into a top university. Her father sat on the threshold smoking all night, cutting every expense he could to buy her a phone. Chen Bin was the boy who came walking toward her through the light in her bleak days. She remembered the bottle of water he handed her on the sports field for years.
Seven years later, he caught a wave of success and made his fortune. The lights left on all night and the long hair of another woman on his shirt were what he left for the woman waiting for him at home. One night, she left without a word.
When they meet again, he is bankrupt, hiding from creditors, and rotting in a garbage heap. Even his family keeps their distance. She hands him two hundred thousand yuan. "This is what I owed you. Now we're even."
But the man who had stood in the shadows since the very first time he saw her has never left. He says, "Miss Su, our story isn't over yet."
The one who came toward her in the light could not stay by her side to the end. The one who went to her has waited in the shadows for a lifetime.
Some debts take a lifetime to repay. Some people, once lost, are gone for a lifetime.
Theme: What you owe must be repaid, and no one's heart should be taken for granted.
