A tender secret crush tucked into the rhythms of academic life, about the mutual feelings between student Lin Zhixia and teacher Shen Yan. From monk fruit candies before conference presentations and red date tea in the faculty office, to protective gloves while organizing lab equipment and memories of each other's favorite milk tea orders, then quiet guidance at academic salons and a star-shaped keychain engraved with a name, little gestures of care are hidden in every detail. There are no grand declarations of love, only a scarf in the evening breeze, waiting beneath the streetlights, warm sunlight on sketch paper, and feelings left unspoken. Their restraint and fluttering hearts slowly simmer into the sweetest days of late autumn.
