Star Trails and Lines of Poetry

When reason meets poetry, and the paths of the stars are destined to cross, two souls find their most beautiful harmony in youth.

Lin Xinggui’s name is as mysterious as the paths of the stars. Beneath his rational mind lies a keen sensitivity to poetry and music. Shen Shixing lives up to her name, moving poetically through the worlds of mathematics and poetry. Beneath her composed exterior lies a rich and profound inner world.

At the start of their senior year, the transfer student Lin Xinggui is seated beside Shen Shixing, the top student in their grade. A dazzling solution in math class brings the two brilliant minds together for the first time; a notebook filled with notes about the stars reveals the striking similarities between their souls.

He’s the star of the basketball court, sinking a game-winning three, and the most attentive listener outside the music room. She’s a poetic girl reading quietly in the library and a precise, meticulous budding researcher in the physics lab. To their classmates, they’re a perfect pair of top students. To each other, they’re caught in a mutual crush, emotions stirring beneath the surface.

From the balcony scene in the English-language skit of Romeo and Juliet to sharing inspiration beneath the stars late at night; from working side by side in math competitions to perfectly complementing each other at poetry recitals, every encounter sends ripples through the calm of school life.

Yet the pressures of senior year, the choices that lie ahead, and the feelings they’ve never put into words all test their beautiful, fragile bond. When there’s only one recommendation slot for early admission, and their dream universities are miles apart, what will they choose?

This is love at first sight, born in the soft light of an autumn day, and a mutual crush hidden between equations and lines of poetry. In the final stretch of their youth, they pursue the most emotional kind of love in the most rational way, because true love