Across the Sleeve

Gu Qinghan has a trauma-induced fear of touch. When anyone else touches her, she feels nauseated, tense, and her heart races. But when Shen Yuan'an came close, for the first time her body didn't sound the alarm.

Shen Yuan'an is a fallen heiress. After her father died, her uncles took everything from her. Covered in old scars and plagued by depression, she first believed, "Maybe I deserve to be loved," only when Gu Qinghan stood before her.

They are each other's one exception, and each other's only shackles.

Their families want to tear them apart, her brother wants to destroy them, and their enemies want to drag them into hell.

Gu Qinghan loves someone by carefully weighing the costs and benefits, clumsily and with restraint, wounded all over.

Shen Yuan'an uses the last of her courage to trust someone, rushing toward love like a moth to a flame, without a second thought.

Neither one pursued the other, and neither waited for the other. They simply couldn't hold back from going to each other.

This time, let me come to you.

Theme: Love cannot erase trauma, but even broken people can become each other's way home.