When the Light Breaks

Su Wan, a night shift clerk at a convenience store, struggles to survive in the neon-lit city: on one side, her younger brother suffers from a rare disease and requires huge surgical fees, and on the other side, she scrapes together scattered hopes through part-time illustration. Until he met Lu Shiyan, an elite investment banker from a wealthy family, but he tasted the long-lost smoke in the hot fish balls she handed out.​ He shielded her from the cold wind late at night, helped her find a part-time job as an illustrator, and even secretly prepared an apartment with a balcony; she painted convenience store street lights for him and hid her heart-wrenching sketches, but under family pressure and her brother's critical illness, she was forced to say hurtful "cruel words."​ The class gap has built a wall, and misunderstandings and sacrifices have woven a web. When the truth was revealed the moment she coughed up blood, they had already missed too much. In the end, he held her collection of illustrations and guarded the empty balcony. All that she left in his life was the brief glimmer of light under the neon light and a lifetime of irreparable regrets.