The Promise of Wutong and Midsummer

[Mutual pining + sweet campus romance + ensemble cast with multiple POVs + childhood sweethearts + reunion after years apart + happy ending]

[An airheaded girl with incredible fighting skills x a genius boy who never says what he means]

Ji Yunqing

A Peking Opera martial-role performer with formidable kung fu, she hides the edge of her training clothes beneath her school uniform. Her palms are marked with the faint calluses left by years of wielding a spear.

She's naturally absent-minded and slow to react, and blushes whenever someone compliments her. If she gets lost, she'll crouch by the road and draw circles in the dirt. But she can take down three thugs in three seconds. Her dream is to get into Nanyi University of the Arts and make the little-known art of traditional Chinese opera shine in the eyes of countless people.

Shi Ye

To his teachers, he's a delinquent who “doesn't take his studies seriously.” In truth, he's a genius artist whose paintings create worlds of their own. Arrogant, defiant, and all bark but secretly caring, he keeps his distance, until the girl who disappeared four years ago suddenly reappears in his life.

Four years ago, they were the only light in each other's childhood.

Four years later, they unexpectedly reunite at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.

He pretends not to know her, yet reaches for the book on the shelf that she can't quite reach when they meet in the bookstore. She doesn't notice his feelings, but when he gets hurt, she gently sticks a bandage on his forehead.

(Adapted from the comic Mint Summer.)

“Don't ask how hard the years apart have been. Youth is best spent together.”

This is a passionate campus story about youthful dreams and two people finding their way to each other.

When their dreams are questioned and old wounds begin to surface...

At last, over the roar of a departing train, he says, “I'm really glad you were able to come back!”

And on that midsummer night, she clenches her fists and tells him, “This time, I don't want to run away anymore!”