"You know what? The shape of that basket looks different from different angles."
When Lin Xiaoyu collapsed under the basketball hoop in the rain, she thought her seventeen-year-old life was like that rusty basketball hoop - full of scars that couldn't be wiped off. She was used to reading aloud to cover up her inferiority complex, but because of this she gradually drifted away from her once close classmate Su Ya; she mustered up all the courage to approach Lu Yuan, the handsome student she had a crush on, but she heard with her own ears that he promised Su Ya with a smile that he would "ignore that nerd in the future."
Under the guidance of Zhang Ming, the mentor of the literary club, Lin Xiaoyu began to try to look at her broken girl's heart from a new perspective. She discovered that there was an unknown protection behind Su Ya's words of "ignore her", that Lu Yuan's cynical smile concealed the trauma of his original family, and that high school sophomore Chen Yang, who always watched her silently on the basketball court, had a focused light in his eyes that she had never seen from anyone else.
When Lin Xiaoyu finally learned not to cover up her uneasiness with the sound of reading aloud, she suddenly understood that love at the age of seventeen should not be chasing until your neck is sore, but someone who is willing to look at the same sky with you, telling you that every angle is worth being seen.
This is a story about self-reconciliation in adolescence. When Lin Xiaoyu no longer obsessed with being a "perfect circle" in the eyes of others, she finally found her own elliptical universe in the eyes of the boy who always looked at her.
