[Gentle, resilient small-town girl x aloof, brilliant young man]
On the first day of her second year of high school, Song Zhaozhao was groped on a stuffy bus. Xia Qifan stepped in to help her.
From then on, she carefully tucked the handsome boy away in the deepest corner of her heart.
He was a brilliant young man beyond her reach. She was an ordinary girl who had to budget carefully just to get by.
She thought her unrequited love was doomed to go nowhere, until...
On the school trip bus, he naturally took the seat beside her.
At a pottery class in an ancient town, he patiently guided her hands as he taught her the craft.
In a hospital corridor, his eyes red, he said, "Zhaozhao, I only have my grandmother left."
When everyone thought she wasn't good enough for him, she emerged as a dark horse, breaking into the top ranks of her grade and standing beside him on the awards podium.
Xia Qifan would always remember that autumn in Manxi Town, when the girl faced the sunlight and told him:
"Xia Qifan, I'm not trying to chase after you. I want to stand beside you."
I ran with all my might, not to touch the moon, but so the moon would come to me.
[Reading Guide]
1. Mutual pining and mutual growth: a battle of love between two top students.
2. A small-town girl's comeback. See how the heroine breaks through prejudice with her own abilities.
3. The male lead is cold on the outside and warm on the inside, and gentle only toward the heroine.
