Crossing the Years

Meng Qingjia thinks Xu Shan is beyond her reach the first time she sees him. In a white shirt, he looks like the leading man straight out of a manga, brimming with youthful charm. Xu Shan is not only exceptionally capable but strikingly handsome. Compared with him, she has nothing going for her except good grades.

Xu Shan is one of the most talked-about students at school. Faced with someone so dazzling, Meng Qingjia never dares to entertain any ideas about him. She simply follows obediently behind him, doing whatever he asks: bringing him meals and taking a beating in his place.

Knowing how far out of her league Xu Shan is, she never imagines they could be together. She only goes astray and falls for another dazzling boy. As Meng Qingjia pursues Lin Yaoyang, she never realizes that Xu Shan has always been following her. He watches her fall for someone else, then takes revenge on her behalf when she is hurt. He shines brightly in her world until she can no longer ignore his light.

On a university campus, a handsome young man sweeps a girl in a formal gown into his arms.

Xu Shan catches his breath, opens the car door, and settles her into the back seat. Bracing his hands on either side of her, he looks into her eyes and says, a little breathlessly, “I’ll have the school plant peach trees everywhere, the kind that bear peaches.”

“After we get married and have a child, we’ll bring our little one here to pick peaches.”