24 Hours

By chance, I glanced at the rose in the corner, and it finally bloomed.

—Wen Tianyu

Amidst the pressures of high school and the looming anxiety of their final academic years, Wen Tianyu and Xiang Qing find their lives intertwined. What begins as a simple arrangement to catch up on missed lessons evolves into a series of quiet, intimate gestures—shared breakfasts, late-night studies, and the burgeoning realization of feelings that neither knows how to articulate. As their youth begins to blossom, they stand at a precarious crossroads, unaware that the path ahead is shadowed by impending tragedy.