October Brings Autumn

(Aloof medical grad student × sweet, gentle medical underclasswoman)

A story of redemption

Secondary couple: Meng Xi × Xie Ang

Tech-minded computer science guy × quirky, spirited psychologist

In the autumn of her eighteenth year, Nan Jinhe sees Jiang Yan again at the same university. At the opening ceremony, Jiang Yan gives a speech onstage as student council president, still as dazzling as he was when she saw him at her brother’s graduation a year earlier.

Years later, Jiang Yan returns to the university to give a talk as an outstanding alumnus. The same lecture hall, the same stage, but this time Nan Jinhe sits in the front row, waiting for him... Afterward, Jiang Yan sits beside her and coaxes her: “Wait a little, honey. I’ll buy you an ice cream.”

Everyone knows there’s a younger student pursuing Jiang Yan, but what they don’t know is that Jiang Yan needs Nan Jinhe. No one knows how Jiang Yan and Nan Jinhe made it through the two years they were apart...

As Jiang Yan wrote at the end of his thesis: A person’s past is already behind them, and the future cannot be predicted. What matters most is the present. I’m so grateful to my little girlfriend. I once thought the years ahead would be a dull, predictable routine. She told me that happiness can be found in little things: meeting a cute dog on the road, coming across a strangely shaped puddle, seeing an adorable child, buying your favorite food, or coming home to find someone waiting for you. If you’re still willing to share those moments with me, then that’s twice the happiness. Finally, I want to thank my little girlfriend for quietly keeping me company while I wrote my thesis. Companionship is rare in life. Now my doctoral studies are over, and the long road...