Lin Huai tried so hard to prove to everyone that he deserved to be loved, and tried so hard to love the people around him. But no matter how hard he tried, he could never measure up to his older brother.
Even though his brother, Lin Lian, was only adopted.
Lin Huai had done nothing wrong, yet everyone thought he was despicable and shameless, selfish and cowardly, like a rat in a gutter, unworthy of being compared to Lin Lian.
On his seventeenth birthday, Lin Huai was punished by being made to kneel in the courtyard. That winter was bitterly cold. As the snowflakes fell, Lin Huai's heart died.
But after Lin Huai grew cold and indifferent, everyone loved him.
Theme: A rose blooming in frozen soil.
