On November 24, 2021, the TV adaptation starring Yang Xuwen and Xu Lingyue premiered. Yan Xiaochen’s life took a turn during the year of her college entrance exams. She was unexpectedly implicated in a cheating scandal and someone else took her place at the university. Her father went to great lengths to seek justice for her, but died in a car accident on his way home. Her mother could not recover from the shock of her husband’s death. From then on, she drowned herself in drink and unconsciously redirected her hatred toward her daughter. Who took Yan Xiaochen’s place in the college entrance exams? And who was really responsible for her father’s death? Shen Hou, her college boyfriend of many years, with whom she is about to marry, and Cheng Zhiyuan, a mentor and friend who always comes to her aid in times of crisis: what secrets are each of them carrying? A story about a time that is “half warm” slowly unfolds.
