There will always be someone willing to brave the surging waves and embrace you, even when you're covered in mud.
*
Song Heshen is the wildest wolf at Xinghai High School: unruly, arrogant, and impossible to tame.
Jiang Mian, meanwhile, is the stillest sea in everyone's eyes: quiet and distant, yet hiding turbulent currents beneath the surface.
"Are you afraid of me?" he asked, a cigarette between his lips, smiling carelessly.
"No," she said, lowering her eyes. "I'm afraid of myself... Everyone who gets close to me ends up unlucky."
He scoffed and ground out his cigarette beside her feet, the sparks burning hot.
"What a coincidence. I'm tough as nails, and bad luck doesn't stand a chance against me."
*
Later, a raging fire tore through the night. Song Heshen shielded Jiang Mian beneath him, blood soaking through their school uniforms and her long skirt.
When he woke in the hospital, the first thing he saw was her bloodshot eyes.
"Does it hurt...?" Her voice trembled.
He curled his lips into a pale but roguish smile. "Kiss me, and it won't hurt."
But a few days later, she disappeared.
Song Heshen trashed the entire hospital room, shattered glass covering the floor.
Blood dripped onto a note as he smiled even more viciously. "Jiang Mian, you've got some nerve!"
On a snowy night five years later, Song Heshen was dead drunk when he unexpectedly ran into Jiang Mian outside an art exhibition.
He grabbed her wrist and pinned her against the wall, his knuckles white with the force of his grip. Five years of suppressed rage and pain blazed in his eyes.
"It's been five years, Jiang Mian."
"What gives you the right to come and go as you please? What do you take me for?"
Jiang Mian's lips trembled as she tried to push him away, but he drove her to tears.
"We've already..."
"Already what?" He chuckled, his voice hoarse as if the wind had torn through it. "Let me tell you, I'll never let you go again for as long as you live!"
*
You fall, and I follow. You become king, and I crown you.
Even if the whole world condemns you to a lifetime of loneliness, I'll appeal on your behalf to the very end.
Gentle, insecure heroine x devoted playboy hero | Mutual salvation | Happy ending
Theme: Love is the courage to break free of fate, the fearless collision of two lonely stars in a dark universe
