Yu Jian's first-year high school physics grades were like eraser crumbs stuck in the crease of a sheet of scratch paper: no matter what, she couldn't get rid of them. That was until Chen Shouyan, the boy who sat behind her, drew the first force-analysis line in red ink on her 38-point test paper.
When he explained problems, his breath smelled of mint. He remembered her mentioning sweet-and-sour pork three times, folded his photocopied physics notes into the shape of a kitten, and handed her a warm White Rabbit candy after evening study.
Sunlight shifted across the exercise book in the library. Sweat and the summer breeze mingled on the basketball court. The streetlights stretched their two shadows side by side, long and slender. They exchanged notebooks of mistakes and shared the little feelings they secretly kept hidden. In their shared understanding that they should focus on their studies, they let those tiny flutterings of the heart slowly spread like starlight leaking between the pages, filling their entire youth.
This isn't some earth-shaking story. It's just two ordinary high school students doing practice problems together, improving together, and quietly keeping a little sweetness to themselves at the age when they should be working hard.
Theme: No dating before graduation.
