CyxtusXiaomi
After graduating secondary school with results that leave him feeling directionless, Eli watches his childhood best friend Isaac leave the state to chase a brighter future. Left behind with his doubts, his darkness, and a sketchbook filled with dead places, Eli enrolls in an art college he never planned to love.
There, he meets Martin, a gentle, fantasy-minded classmate whose quiet presence slowly pulls Eli out of his isolation. When they step in to protect Michelle, a warm-hearted nursing student being harassed by a violent senior, the incident lands them in a hospital-where Eli meets Tiara.
Calm, intelligent, and carrying an almost otherworldly grace, Tiara dreams of working in hospitals, using art to comfort those who are suffering. As Eli and Tiara grow closer, sharing their fears, dreams, and unspoken wounds, Eli finds himself drawn to her light despite his obsession with death and darkness. For the first time, he begins to imagine a future that feels... alive.
But the warmth doesn't last.
When Tiara is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, the boy who once romanticized death is forced to confront the terror of losing someone he loves. Alongside Martin, Michelle, a chaotic-but-kind senior named Aiden, and the determined school president Jen, Eli fights against time itself-working part-time jobs, organizing fundraisers, and clinging to hope.