Our MC is a young girl who lives alone in the city for school since her mother lives in the country to make ends meet. She ends up witnessing the death of a classmate. The instigator bullies the MC to keep her mouth shut. One afternoon, on her way home, she encounters a gang beating up a boy. She normally minds her own business but as she walks pass them, she takes her phone out to call the police. When the gang sees this, they attack her too. They force the MC and the boy to kiss. Later they see each other. The boy is a member of another gang and on that particular day, he was sick so he let them beat him up. She asked the boy for protection from her bullies. He would walk behind her every day to and from school. She becomes deeply dependent on him and they start to fall in love. He will make sacrifices for her after a big incident that happens towards the end. The ending isn't conclusive.

The ML's absurd false confession happened. That was just too much self-sacrifice. It was not necessary. Just before FL's exams on top of that. Clean bullsh*t just to create more tragedy. Don't like it. Interrogations were so annoying that it made me drop one more stars.

Forgiving the crimes committed by children and youths, and granting them an opportunity to turn over a new leaf, was a form of kindness extended by adult society to children and youths. But, when children hurt children, and youths hurt youths, what should adults in those instances?

What can the adults do for the children and youths who have been hurt? Why did the pain and suffering endured by such children and youths only serve as stepping stones, to help other children and youths grow and mature into responsible citizens? Why did the pain and suffering endured by such children and youths serve as the symbol of the transformation of wayward children and youths into prodigal sons and daughters?

It tells at police station, about the victims.

The novel is good, with it's dark theme about reality, which exists because... bullying exists even now, and at least, now many people, in the present, realise that bullying is not a funny joke at all, it's a serious bad deed.

Chen Nian (1 friend and another friend after some time I think) and Bei Ye (friend? no, this guy isn't a friend after what he did, ? and another +1 friend) - two teenagers who both had broken hearts by the fact that they were alone even with their circle of friends and no support emotionally from their family's, because most people don't tell everything to their friends, so both Chen Nian and Bei Ye formed a connection of dependence with trust from Chen Nian and protection from Bei Ye, and then fell in love. Overall, with the plot of a case being prolonged a little bit in the late chapters, you will meet Zhang Yi an police officer who intends to resolve a case related to Chen Nian and Bei Ye, honestly for me it wasn't that mysterious, because my guess was right. What shocked me first, at this story, was of how intentionally the author described the world, the school, so dark with barely some flicker of light in it, (and I can even relate to it, maybe you too. (Yes school is like a prison, but a prison where you have to learn for your own sake, where it matures you too, too observe, learn, communicate, etc.).

Does the FL get r*ped?.... I think so.., I don't think I processed the information well at that moment from the shock I had when I read those events.........