Ye has always regarded her older sister, Qianjing, as her whole world.
To her, her sister is home, a source of security, someone who makes her feel that nothing is frightening as long as she can go back. Qianjing is gentle, attentive, and unfailingly caring, and has always believed she is simply protecting her little sister. Then Xia, a classmate, enters the picture, and for the first time Ye realizes that being listened to, respected, and allowed to make her own choices feels completely different from being "well taken care of."
As they grow closer, Ye gradually discovers that her sister's love holds more than protection. It also conceals surveillance, possessiveness, and a fear of losing her that is too overwhelming to bear. Yet even after seeing the problem, she keeps returning to her sister, again and again, out of dependence, guilt, and a soft heart.
On the night when fate divides into different paths, Ye dreams of a future in which she continues to stay silent. She sees herself rejecting the outside world, giving up on her future, and quietly remaining by her sister's side. She also sees her sister finally getting the "Ye who will never leave," while she herself slowly loses her shape in that safe, tender love, becoming a shadow in her sister's world that never resists.
When she wakes, none of it has happened yet.
For the first time, Ye does not turn back out of guilt and dependence. She faces her sister and says the words that nearly tear them apart:
She loves her, but she cannot go on being loved like this, and she cannot go on loving her like this.
This is a story of sisters bound by dependence, obsessive possessiveness, diverging paths in a dream, and mutual salvation. They still love each other deeply, but at last they learn that true love is not suffocating together, but living on together.
