Time period: A modern school setting, during transfer season in late spring and early summer, when the cherry blossoms have yet to fall and the pagoda trees are just beginning to bloom
Location: Qingteng Academy, a top middle school with a technology library topped by a fully transparent dome and a literary corridor with a hundred-year history
Central conflict: A genius girl and a math whiz spark a romance as they clash in their rational and emotional interpretations of love