[A tug-of-war between trauma and redemption, a fated equation between a math student and a country girl]
Xu Jie once thought the deepest wound in life was losing his friend Zhao Yong, who was pushed toward the abyss because of him. As Zhao’s falling figure pierced the rain and their eyes met, his friend’s final smile was frozen forever in the abyss seventeen stories below. From then on, every building became a crack in Xu Jie’s soul. Even passing the shadow of a school building could leave him choking with panic.
His family took him away from the city, never imagining they were pushing him into another twist of fate.
Beside rice paddies ringing with cicadas, Xu Jie meets a girl holding a sickle: Su He.
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Then, on the first day of school, Xu Jie walks into Su He’s classroom at the College of Agriculture with his backpack on. He stands in the back row, watching the girl at the front hold up a test tube, and suddenly realizes that the most perfect convergence in mathematics is when her gaze falls on him and his heartbeat finally stops racing out of control.
“I was once trapped in the rain on the seventeenth floor, but you taught me to run through the mud.”
[Highlights]
✅ The aesthetics of trauma: a devastating collision between a fear of buildings and the healing power of country life
✅ Two top students: a math prodigy × a hands-on agriculture student, a romantic dialogue between formulas and seeds
✅ Sweet push and pull: from “You can’t even tell corn seedlings apart” to “My lab needs someone to take measurements,” with hidden sparks of attraction
✅ A pastoral campus idyll: the scent of rice, fireflies, and a pigsty in a downpour create the most down-to-earth healing campus romance
When reason and emotion sprout in the soil, this proof of redemption finally arrives at its optimal solution.
