Xiao Yulin: Late-Blooming Flowers

Xiao Yu is a handsome, brilliant top student at the high school division of Experimental Middle School, and the school heartthrob who makes all the girls swoon. He is cold and aloof, someone to admire from afar but hard to approach, like an iceberg. Yet he has a special fondness for Lin Dai, the adorable, beautiful school idol in the junior high division. He spoils her in every way. She can act cute and throw tantrums around him, and not only does he accept it, he indulges and enjoys it.

Lin Dai is not only a young school beauty but also a gifted science student, a prodigy in math and physics. She is bossy, proud, and haughty, but with Xiao Yu she acts cute, plays innocent, and deliberately dumps her problems on him. The moment she sees him, she goes weak in the knees. Her dream is to live with Xiao Yu and have him spoil her for the rest of her life.

At Experimental Middle School, they are a beautiful sight: one waits, while the other gives chase. Xiao Yu turned down Peking University’s gifted youth program and gave up skipping grades. He was waiting for her. Lin Dai chased him from junior high through high school, from the gifted youth program at Peking University in the north all the way to a master’s degree at the University of Hong Kong. One wrote on the first page of his diary, “If you don’t come, how could I dare leave?” The other wrote, “Wait for me. Are you trying to wear me out?” In the end, their paths converged, and they worked together in the exciting field of artificial intelligence…