In 1990s China, Chen Yi and Miao Jing are thrown together as teenagers by their parents, and the arrangement starts badly: he is guarded and prickly, she is stubbornly kind. Over time her warmth wears down his defenses, and hardship at home leaves the two leaning almost entirely on each other. Years later he runs a billiards hall in their old hometown while she returns for work, and buried feelings resurface alongside new danger. Adapted from Xiu Tu Cheng's web novel, this Chinese melodrama leans into childhood trauma, resilience, and tangled family ties.