Fifteen years ago, on a midsummer night in the slums, a young girl named Zhong Siwei knocked on the rusty iron door across the way. A handsome, aloof boy leaned out, his eyes cold and wary.
"What do you want?" Ji Chunshan asked indifferently.
Zhong Siwei smiled with innocent sweetness and held out a few candles. "Brother Chunshan, you just moved here, so you probably don't know. The power goes out around here all the time. I brought you some candles."
And so, she became the only light in his bleak, gray adolescence. For many years afterward, they were close friends, lovers, and companions who swore they would leave the slums together.
But life took them down different paths. Years later, one flew to distant, unfamiliar Los Angeles, while the other vanished into the crowd without a trace. Their youthful vows faded like wind over sand dunes, impossible to find again.
When they meet again, he is the heir to a ten-billion-yuan conglomerate, while she is still adrift in an urban village, with an old TV whose remote no longer works, an air conditioner that leaks year-round, a washing machine that shudders whenever it runs, and a room as cold and desolate as a snow cave.
Everything reveals how poorly she has fared over the years. The bright, carefree girl he remembers is gone. Putting on a flirtatious act, she wraps her arms around him and says, "Brother Chunshan, you still like me, don't you? Then I'll sleep with you, and you can buy me an apartment!"
The blood in Ji Chunshan's veins turns to ice. So she would rather ruin her own reputation and destroy herself than be with him again. All he can do is take a step back and stay by her side as her close friend.
Until a few months later, in that same rented apartment, he pulls a suit jacket he'd long ago thrown away out from under her covers.
"Siwei, do you hold this every night when you sleep?" His eyes are bloodshot as he grabs her arm and demands, almost frantically, "Tell me, why do you sleep holding it?"
"I mean, you could just hold me instead."
"Siwei, hold me tight."
1. A kind, resilient, complicated heroine x a cool on the outside, warm on the inside man of action
2. Childhood sweethearts, rekindled love, both leads have no romantic history with anyone else
3. The heroine may not be perfect, but she is definitely vivid, resilient, and strong.
Theme: For you, I'll learn to love the world all over again.
