Wen Xiaoju's Sweet and Silly Love Story with the Campus Heartthrob

Wen Xiaoju is like a freshly unwrapped orange candy, soft and sweet, yet born with a “trouble radar.” On the first day of school, she rushes through the gates with a backpack full of homemade cookies. Without even looking where she’s going, she scatters crumbs all over campus heartthrob Lu Xingyan’s custom uniform, then mistakes the tiny succulent he keeps in his pocket for “a moving rock” and squashes its leaves. After this “disastrous first meeting,” the whole school thinks she’s a brazen attention seeker, but no one knows she’s simply still half asleep and has terrible eyesight. Lu Xingyan, meanwhile, seems like a cold-hearted heartthrob, with top grades and the prestige of being basketball club president. In private, he’s an immature prankster who loves stashing prank props and drawing silly faces on his deskmate’s homework. He means to “settle the score” with Wen Xiaoju, but her outrageous antics keep turning his attempts to prank her back into something else. He goes to the supermarket with her to buy milk, and she knocks over every tub of yogurt on the shelf. In the end, they crouch on the floor, trying to “rescue” the spilled strawberry yogurt with straws. He helps her with math, and she decides that a “quadratic function” means “two triangles falling in love,” then draws him a couple’s function graph to grade. Even on the school field trip, she mistakes someone else’s tent for her own, spends the whole night wrapped in Lu Xingyan’s jacket, and wakes up asking, “Why are you raising fireflies in my tent?” As a string of ridiculous incidents snowballs, the “cookie crumb incident,” the “succulent disaster,” the “tent mix-up,” and the time she stepped on the campus heartthrob’s shoe at the sports meet, the two go from “mutual annoyance” to inseparable partners in trouble. Lu Xingyan realizes Wen Xiaoju’s “airheadedness” isn’t an act...