[School life + living together + two top students + reserved academic genius falls in love first + healing each other through pure love]
There are two couples, and the story is mostly everyday life. If that's not your thing, feel free to pass.
Reserved, self-controlled, lonely genius VS cool, composed, breathtaking beauty
Sunny, cheerful novel lover VS gentle, thoughtful beauty who loves training dogs
It really gets good later, so I hope you little sweethearts will be patient.
After transferring to a top high school, Luan Shu is forced to move in with Qi Xun, the academic star in her class. With both their fathers sent overseas for six months, the two make a deal in their cramped apartment: at school, they will never mention that they live together.
Trapped beneath her mother's extreme need for control, Luan Shu has had all her love of science dismissed. She can only hide her rough calculations and work through problems in secret.
Qi Xun seems cool and taciturn, but has lived alone in an empty house for more than a decade. His parents have long been stationed abroad, and his grandparents have passed away. After years of solitude, he is deeply afraid of being alone.
Scattered sheets of scratch paper, the figure smoothing out crumpled pages on the balcony late at night, their names side by side at the top of the rankings, a folding chair kept by the bedside on a stormy night, and a whole notebook of calculations saved up over half a year in the evening breeze on the rooftop: all of them hold Qi Xun's unspoken fear and budding affection.
He cherishes the hard-won warmth of home that has filled these brief six months, yet constantly fears the day they must part, and fears that once Luan Shu moves out, he will be alone in the house again.
Luan Shu is slow to catch on, taking a long time to see the tenderness hidden in the boy's small gestures. Qi Xun keeps everything bottled up, swallowing all his unease and love on his own.
In the height of summer during their senior year, stacks of scratch paper bring together two teenagers trapped by their families. They heal each other through countless days and nights of studying, tentatively draw closer amid their anxiety over parting, and, beneath the evening breeze, move toward a youthful love that belongs only to them.
