A heartwarming story with no angst, grounded and never over-the-top, sweet but not cloying. Enjoy without worry.
Ye Xuxu, the class representative of Grade 11 Class 1, was assigned by her teacher to sit with Liu Xuanyu, a new transfer student. As he flirted with her, sometimes deliberately and sometimes not, Ye Xuxu realized she had fallen for him. He returned to his hometown to take the college entrance exam, and before they parted, he promised to meet her at C University. At their graduation gathering, Liu Xuanyu brought along the girlfriend he'd been dating for years. Ye Xuxu was heartbroken before she'd even begun a relationship. Zheng Youyan gave up his recommendation to Imperial University and went to C University with her. The three of them met again at C University…
At last, one day Ye Xuxu suddenly understood: someone had always been there. All she had to do was turn around, and he'd be right behind her.
“Zheng Youyan, why did you give up your recommendation to the best university in the capital?”
“The capital is too far away. I was worried I wouldn't adjust to the climate.”
“But it would be such a shame to give up an opportunity like that!”
“Sometimes you have to make sacrifices.”
Years later, when she thought back to that conversation, Ye Xuxu still remembered him saying that sometimes you had to make sacrifices, and it moved her deeply. At the time, though, she hadn't understood what he meant by sacrifice at all.
Main characters: Ye Xuxu, the good girl in her teachers' eyes and a study addict in her best friend's eyes. Responsible, dependable, and guided by strong values, but slow to recognize her own feelings.
Zheng Youyan, a genius at science subjects, the campus heartthrob who was always there for Ye Xuxu, and her best friend's distant cousin.
Liu Xuanyu, Ye Xuxu's desk mate starting in Grade 11, a carefree rich boy who knows how to charm girls but isn't faithful in love.
Yao Yao, Ye Xuxu's best friend, a quirky girl who frets endlessly over Ye Xuxu's love life.
