Summer Love Diary

After leaving Mulan Bay, Lin Lu once dreamed of becoming a journalist who reported on people’s livelihoods and spoke up for the public. But after her boyfriend, a minor celebrity, cheated on her, a carefully premeditated incident got her fired. Her work and personal life both took a devastating hit, sending her straight to rock bottom. With no choice, Lin Lu returned to her hometown to catch her breath and lie flat.

Jian Yue is a novelist whose many works have been successfully adapted, making him the talk of the town. Then one of his novels became entangled in a criminal case, sending him plummeting to rock bottom. He began to doubt himself completely and even developed insomnia, phone anxiety, and a fear of crowds. After discussing it, his parents decided to send him to Mulan Bay, a place they had visited when they were young. There, he met Lin Lu, the village’s “big boss.”

With Lin Lu’s return, the group brings the little village a raucous yet heartwarming comedy, along with a hazy, fluttering romance. This is a story about young people battered and wounded by life, who briefly flee the big city and return home to lie flat, trying to soothe the pain of the past. Exhausted by life and work, with their futures still uncertain, Lin Lu, Jian Yue, and the others go from strangers to showing up for one another, like tiny lights joining together to illuminate Mulan Bay’s nights.

A cool, capable-seeming journalist who’s actually warmhearted and quick with a cheesy line × a socially anxious, reserved, scheming novelist who only lets his inner peacock out for the heroine