Something's Not Right About My Childhood Friend

The scatterbrained freshman Lin Xiaoyou accidentally slipped a childhood photo tucked inside her textbook into the bag of an aloof upperclassman, setting off a campus trending topic: #CherryBlossomTreeCouple. As the whole school used cafeteria code words, textbook doodles, and chance encounters during morning runs to play matchmaker, she had no idea that Gu Nanzhou had spent seven years hiding an unspoken constellation in carbon copies of her volunteer form, the back seat of his bicycle, and his morning assembly speeches. Then, in the middle of a torrential downpour, he clutched the second button of his school uniform and said, “Have you ever counted? Every time you turn to look at me, another mark appears on the desk.”