Summary
Song Guo can spot a rich client at a glance, and aloof photography heir Zhou Yi looks like the answer to every tuition bill.
What begins with paid classes and home-cooked meals soon becomes a tender life neither man dares to name.
But family violence, stolen dreams, and a desperate lie tear them apart just as Zhou Yi is ready to choose Song Guo over everything.
Seven years later, Song Guo returns to the capital carrying a false marriage, an old promise, and a love he never managed to bury.
Zhou Yi claims he has stopped waiting, yet an unchanged apartment, a faded yellow-duck umbrella, and a crabapple tree grown from ruined fruit tell another story.
To find their way home, they must decide whether love can survive sacrifice—and whether two damaged lives can still grow roots together.