In the September morning light, Shen Xingwan climbed over the wall and was caught red-handed. Zhou Xubai, the discipline committee member, stood in the backlight, buttoning the top button of his white shirt, and wrote down her name. She thought this was the beginning of a nightmare, but she didn't know that it was two people whose memories had been tampered with, rediscovering each other without knowing it.
Ten years ago, two injured children met under the ginkgo tree in the old city hospital. Ten years later, by the sweet-scented osmanthus tree of Ivy Middle School, he waited for her to leave for seventeen days and wrote her name for seventeen days before he dared to write "it's her" once. But when the truth was peeled away layer by layer - "project", "pill" and "memory intervention" - they discovered to their horror: their reunion was not fate, but carefully designed research; their memories were not forgotten, but artificially tampered with; even his "rescue" might have been her instinct to pounce on him.
A youth story that begins as "enemies at the same table" but moves towards "two-way redemption". About trauma and memory, about the true feelings still growing in the design, about how two people who have been arranged from beginning to end can say - "It's not the project. It's you."
