Lin Chen, the aloof academic star of Mingde University, has a life filled with code and considers romance a “redundant variable.” Then Su Qingyi, the art department's campus beauty, starts sitting in on his classes with a sketchbook, drawing little monsters to help her memorize formulas and giving him a profile sketch. They even share a sunflower umbrella in a rainstorm. Amid lemon candies and the scent of ink in the library, code meets oil painting. His “logical System” starts to glitch, and the “redundant variable” becomes his sweetest exception, setting off a sugary campus romance.
