In Jiangnan, the rain of Qingming never seems to let up. Cheng Xiang thought the rainy alley at the age of twenty-two would be just another ordinary trip to visit her father's grave and repair the old house, until she stumbled into Lu Zeyan's camera lens.
He was a wealthy young heir carrying an old camera as he searched for traces of his mother. She was an ordinary girl struggling to survive beneath the burden of her father's debts. The rain dampened the film and stirred their hearts: he helped her restore the old house, while she cooked the Qingming rice cakes passed down by his mother. The light and shadows of a secret photography studio became a tenderness they could hide in the cracks of reality.
But fate never lets those who love deeply live in peace. Her father's illness, the family's debts, pressure from Lu's father, deliberate concealment, and misunderstandings born of crossed signals wound around them like strands of Qingming rain. To save her father, she accepted a
