Wen Zhichun had a secret - she had a crush on Qin Guanhe for seven hundred and thirty days, and wrote all the thoughts she dared not express into the online novel "Spring Observation Notes". The "Mr. Baihe" in the novel has the same habits as him: playing badminton on Monday afternoons, always sitting in the third row of the library, and tapping the table unconsciously when reading.
What she didn't know was that Qin Guanhe also had a secret - he had been paying attention to the Sakura girl who was always writing in the corner since his freshman year. He printed out each of her chapter updates and wrote comments on the margins: "Today she ordered the same dish as me in the cafeteria" "She changed to a blue pen" "If she looks up, she will see that I am waiting too."
On his birthday on February 7, Wen Zhichun received a leather notebook given anonymously. On the title page were Rimbaud's poems in his handwriting. With the appearance of a series of mysterious gifts and the handmade book with his annotations in the cafe, she finally discovered that she was not a one-dimensional observer.
But when two cautious hearts are about to get closer, misunderstandings, accidental misses and youthful hesitations weave into a fine network. Those beautiful sentences about regret written by Wen Zhichun seem to predict their trajectory. Until the graduation season comes, a seemingly irreversible separation brings all the hidden foreshadowings to the surface - including the answer hidden in the title of the book from the beginning: "Spring Comes Late, White Crane Returns".
This is a story about writing and reading, observing and being observed. In the short seven-day youth of cherry blossoms, some people are destined to go through a long spring to learn to be brave, while some white cranes fly over thousands of mountains and rivers just to return to the tree waiting for them.
Intent: In the long period of silent observation and delicate writing, two hearts that carefully cherish each other finally learn to be brave, and let those unsaid spring thoughts usher in the warm ending of the white crane returning to its nest.