For five clandestine years, Jiang Shutong loved her best friend's younger brother Duan Zhixu in secret - until he coldly declared her merely his 'practice partner' in love. Heartbroken and disillusioned, she quietly packed her life away from him. Oblivious to her pain, Duan Zhixu mistook his fleeting infatuation with Lin Chuchu for true love, repeatedly wounding Jiang Shutong through his careless affections. Only when her absence became irreversible did realization strike: The woman he'd taken for granted had been his heart's true compass all along. Now, with empty hands and a shattered world, Duan Zhixu finally understood the depth of what he'd destroyed