A Summer Encounter with Ji

In a second-year classroom at Jiangcheng No. 3 High School, Xia Yuan'an had thought he would follow his life plan like a programmed machine: keep a cold expression through high school, go abroad for further study, and eventually take over the vast, cold family business. The upheaval in Nanchuan City five years ago, his mother's death and his father's remarriage, had already pushed him onto a seemingly stable but utterly uneventful path.

That was, until a familiar figure appeared in his line of sight once more.

Ji Huaijin, the childhood friend who had studied alongside him in Nanchuan City while they worked toward admission to a top high school, had returned with his trademark warm smile. Like an unreasonable ray of sunshine, he shone straight through the carefully built defenses around Xia Yuan'an.

One was a sensitive, kind young master who hid his feelings behind a cold exterior, a "cold-faced cutie." The other was an eternally optimistic, big-brother type who could bring warmth to anyone, a "warm-faced cutie."

As the gears of their reunion began to turn, feelings buried by the years gradually surfaced. This time, Xia Yuan'an didn't want to follow the prescribed path anymore. In the warmth of Ji Huaijin's tenderness, he would break the shackles his father had imposed and win back the light that belonged to him.

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- Rekindled romance: A reunion after five years, as childhood friends grow into soulmates who walk side by side.

- Contrasting personalities: A handsome, self-aware, sensitive academic ace who's cold on the outside and warm within × an optimistic childhood friend who's a caring big brother on the surface and quietly flirtatious in private.

- Mutual salvation: Amid the mire of their family backgrounds, they become each other's only salvation and refuge.

- Sweet happy ending: They overcome the obstacles of society and family and bravely make their way toward a happy ending.

A mindless campus story about a crush coming true. If that's not your thing, read at your own risk.

Theme: Growth.