Dedicated to Alisa

[The human-shaped power bank Gu Xiaoman × the once aloof, now devoted Olympiad student Weng Shiyi | Warm and healing | Ensemble cast | Every character has a soul | Realistic everyday life | Sweet from beginning to end]

In fifth grade, junior hall monitor Gu Xiaoman once came across a little boy crying in the hallway while she was on patrol. She told him the story of The Wild Swans, and shared her confusion with him: At the end, Elisa made eleven shirts of nettle to free her brothers from their swan forms, but she ran out of time before finishing the youngest brother’s shirt. One sleeve was missing, so he was left with one wing forever.

But in what seemed like a happy ending, Elisa and her youngest brother still seemed destined to meet again. And yet the story simply stopped there.

Young Gu Xiaoman had a sudden idea. “Why don’t you be my eleventh big brother?”

Little Weng Shiyi was too young back then to ask why. So, in search of that answer, he worked hard to become a swan.

Years later, that junior schoolmate who once drank his tears for water skipped a grade and became her deskmate. As their relationship moved beyond the world of fairy tales, their story gradually grew real-world roots.

“Many years later, faced with a stomach rumbling like a pigeon, Weng Shiyi, the national competition gold medalist in Gu Xiaoman’s heart, would remember that distant night when his girlfriend brought him provisions.”

This is the first story set in Jiangdi. Told from Gu Xiaoman’s perspective, it follows a group of teenagers. Lu Yu and Shao Enfu’s push and pull, Jiang Ruoli’s isolation and self-rescue, Zheng Siyao’s avoidance and dejection, Jiang Jiongran’s extinguishing flame and lingering warmth, and Chi Xiaochi’s cooling and resonance.

Stay tuned.