The Youth of Light and Fire

This is a story about unrequited love and being loved in return, about saving someone and being saved. It's a story about the love we experienced in our youth, all those years ago. It's a story about a teacher and a student.

Shi Lang first saw Yang Su on a rainy day. Yang Su first got to know Shi Lang in the classroom.

Shi Lang first understood Yang Su beneath a starry sky. Yang Su first found himself drawn to Shi Lang when he smiled at him after winning the basketball championship.

Young people always seem to have endless enthusiasm. When he wrapped you in his sincere heart and his whole self, I think that's when Yang Su knew he was done for.

In the bright, fiery days of youth, no one has any regrets.

Gentle, reserved, melancholic homeroom teacher seme with a leg condition x sunny, energetic, lovesick, affection-starved underachiever uke

Please read the content warnings.

1. The male lead is divorced and has a daughter. He is not a gay man who married a woman under false pretenses. It was a marriage of convenience, and the daughter is not biologically his.

2. Aside from some artistic embellishments, most of this is quite realistic. The author has personal feelings about it.

3. The point of view is unclear, but leans a little toward the seme.

4. This is the story I wanted to tell, and it's a gentle one.

5. There are no villains, and no one is wholly good.