As a child, Zach suffered brain damage after nearly drowning while saving his childhood sweetheart, Clara, leaving him slower than others in his reactions and movements. For years, he quietly put up with Clara’s behavior, always following in her footsteps. Clara loved Zach deeply but mistakenly believed he couldn’t understand love, so she brought Adrian into the picture to make Zach jealous, repeatedly standing him up and abandoning him to provoke a reaction. After years of emotional exhaustion, Zach finally gave up and traveled to Japan alone to fulfill a childhood promise. There, he met Ariel and Amel, two sisters who treated him with warmth and patience. Zach decided to apply to MIT, and when Clara found out, she rushed to the school to beg him to take her back, even planning to drop out and reapply to MIT. But Zach finally saw through her childish games and firmly rejected her. At last, he let go of the obsession that had held him captive for years, realizing he didn’t have to chase someone who wasn’t meant for him. Even if he moved more slowly, he could still find someone who would wait for him and walk beside him.
