Dragon Clan: Us in the Ordinary World

This is a story without dragons. There is just an ordinary boy who goes to an ordinary university, meets a group of not-so-ordinary friends, and then slowly becomes a slightly less ordinary version of himself. Chu Zihang, the legendary senior who was always expressionless in high school, is still expressionless now, but he will hand him a Coke in the computer room, take him home for dinner on Thanksgiving, and give him the notes he compiled without saying a word. Renata - a gold medalist in the mathematics department and a teaching assistant. She speaks so little that one wonders if she can't speak. But the homework she corrects always has half a page of handwritten comments. When Lu Mingfei gets stuck on a question, she will draw pictures and explain until she understands it. When others ask, "How did you go in the exam?" She will reply with two words: "Not bad." Nono - red-haired Ferrari, the girlfriend of the student union president. She would appear at the door of the computer room on an ordinary day, drag him to skip class and go to the city, listen to underground bands, eat late-night hot dogs, and then say: "The world is big, you have to go see it." Caesar - the blond boy who stood up straight and smiled politely. He would treat an ordinary freshman to dinner and say, "People like you are not common." He would give him a pen and say, "I heard you did well in the exam, congratulations." And Eri-a Japanese girl she has never met before. From matching teammates in the game to sending emails across the ocean. She sent a photo under the cherry blossom tree and said, "You are taller than in the game." She wrote a letter from a rainy window in Tokyo, asking "How is the weather there?" On every ordinary day, she told him in the simplest sentences: "You are a person, but you are not alone."