If the Clear Sky Remembers

“If I die first, you have to finish the song.”

“...You talk too much.”

On the first day of their sophomore year, Xu Jianzhi, a cold and antisocial top student, is forced by his homeroom teacher to join the school radio station. There he meets Xia Wanxing, a dazzling broadcaster who shines like a little sun.

She’s loud and headstrong, always playing rowdy pop songs;

he’s quiet and rigid, listens only to classical music, and hates all physical contact.

A collaboration neither of them wanted brings their parallel lives together by chance.

Xia Wanxing discovers Xu Jianzhi’s secret hobby of writing sheet music and blackmails him into teaching her composition, threatening to report him.

Xu Jianzhi, meanwhile, catches sight of the girl who’s always smiling, silently crying on the rooftop.

They begin writing a song together, one that belongs to both of them, and call it If the Clear Sky Remembers.

She writes the lyrics; he composes the music.

She makes trouble; he puts up with it.

She gradually finds her way into his guarded world,

while he notices an old scar on her wrist.

“Xu Jianzhi, if I’m gone, remember to finish the song.”

“...Don’t talk nonsense.”

The summer after the college entrance exams, Xia Wanxing’s white dress billows like a kite, then falls.

Xu Jianzhi never gets to hear her say, “I’ve figured out the chorus.”

Ten years later, If the Clear Sky Remembers is playing everywhere.

People say the song is too gentle to sound like Xu Jianzhi’s style.

Only he knows the truth:

It was never his song.