Rain on the Parasol Trees in Midsummer

[Computer Genius x French Top Student, Happy Ending, From Campus to Wedding Gowns]

[Pop-Up Confession! The Aloof Top Student Actually Changed My Graduation Project Code]

"If headphones were the beginning of our meeting, then I'll spend the rest of my life listening to every beat of your heart."

On the first day of school, Shen Tingyu smashed Lu Jinyan's outrageously expensive headphones. From then on, the whole school knew: the socially anxious freshman in the French department had gotten on the bad side of the computer department's icy heartthrob.

He lets her pay him back in installments: "One installment per lifetime."

She practices broadcasting late into the night, and he silently listens to every mistake beneath the plane trees.

Then a mishap during a live basketball game sends her name for him trending after she mispronounces it. That night, the school forum explodes: "Lu Jinyan responds publicly: She was adorable when she got my name wrong."

Later, every program he writes bears her name.

After six months apart in Paris, he suddenly appears by the Seine: "Code can be debugged, but I can't wait even a second to miss you."

Love is like code: bugs can be fixed and mistakes rewritten, but the program that truly matters can only run once in a lifetime.

At graduation, he opens the headphones from the day they met in front of everyone:

"Shen Tingyu, you owe me for those headphones you broke when you were nineteen..."

"Now I want you to pay me back for every heartbeat in installments, for the rest of your life."

They spent their whole youth getting drenched in the rain that began beneath the plane trees in midsummer, before finally seeing clear skies.

Five hundred thousand words devoted to a love story with no breakup.