“A sweet little story, though the main couple and the third couple start out with a little angst + age gap + comedy + a long-planned romance”
Xia Ning, a young volleyball player from a family of athletes, earns a place at Zhining Sports University with a ferocious “over-the-block spike.” On the first day of school, she falls for Su, the “reserved and abstinent” drill instructor on the training field. His white shirt sleeves are rolled up to his elbows, his eyes behind gold-rimmed glasses seem carved from ice, and his Adam’s apple bobs when he blows his whistle... Xia Ning clutches her wildly beating heart:
[Is this what falling for someone feels like?!]
That is, until her best friend Su Ye grabs her arm and shrieks:
“Ningning! That’s my brother, Su Yu! When we were kids, you hit him in the back of the head with a volleyball and got him laughed at by his teammates for half a year!”
Xia Ning: “...”
“Help! I was swooning over my crush’s embarrassing past?!”
He’s been plotting this for ages, and now he’s going all out! At a party, she demonstrates her fighting skills with a cute younger guy. Someone sees them, gets livid, and carries her off. Jealous, he pins her against the door, lifts her chin, and meets her eyes:
“Xia Ning, are younger guys your type? Or do you just flirt and run? Back then, you held my wound and cried, saying you’d marry me to pay for my medical bills. What about now?”
