Flowers are fragile, and wind and snow are hard to hide. A boy's secret feelings are a reckless love that refuses to be restrained by convention.
Gu Bei always suspects that this encounter is a glitch abruptly inserted into an absurd script. The world sets its standards and marks their feelings as unnatural and aberrant. Rumors fall like frost, gazes cut like blades, and the boys' pure attraction is surrounded and hemmed in on every side.
But Liu Nian tells him, whatever exists has a reason to exist. What people call normal is nothing but a shackle others use to bind the heart.
Gardenias bloom throughout the height of summer, and snow blankets the winter windows. From a remote mountain village to a bustling school, through countless solitary dawns and dusks, they hide their forbidden tenderness and endure suspicion, confrontation, and the prying eyes of others. The spring wind is reckless, and the snow keeps them apart. Society's prejudice leaves a rift that is hard to mend, but the boys insist on rewriting the rules of love with their own hands.
They need no one's approval and ask for no judgment from society. They only wish to stand together in the sunlight and watch the gardenias bloom year after year.
Love in this world has no right or wrong. When two hearts reflect one another, their love is beyond dispute.
Theme: Between summer gardenias and winter snow, two boys break free from society's constraints and set their own rules for love with sincerity.
