Celeste Flynn, an orphan who grew up on the streets after her parents passed away, was taken in by distant relatives Derek Gordon and Mabel Gordon, who only gave her the fake name Chunhua Gordon to fraudulently claim low-income subsidies. When she grew up, the Gordon couple tried to sell her to a disabled man with a history of domestic abuse from a neighboring village for 100,000 yuan in betrothal gifts. She escaped overnight, and by the riverside bridge, saved Ethan Flynn, a blind man who was about to jump into the river to commit suicide.
Ethan Flynn, the sole heir to River City's top conglomerate Flynn Group, was discarded by his family six years prior after he lost his eyesight. One winter night, he sat on a snow-covered bridge railing, ready to end his life which he believed was "meaningless to society". A small hand in a pink down jacket grabbed his collar from behind and pulled him down. Celeste said: "The water is too cold in winter. I'm not jumping. You shouldn't either." Ethan said: "I'm a useless blind man, even if I live, I have no meaning to society." Celeste held his hands: "If you have no meaning to society, what if you have meaning to me? If you think life has no meaning, let's be each other's meaning, okay?"
From that day on, the two became each other's family and support. They waited for spring together, listened to birds sing, smelled flowers. Ethan took out a silver lock pendant tied with a red string from his pocket: "This is a heirloom left by my grandmother, a Flynn Fami
