Stern Intent

"Yan Yan Yi Se"

The student who had held the top spot in Qinghuai Middle School's grade rankings for years was named Luo Yan.

Proud and audacious, with outstanding grades, he was the school bully no one dared to provoke. He was used to staying in first place and never expected a rival to suddenly appear.

The day Mu Yi transferred to Qinghuai Middle School, he turned the rankings upside down.

The new transfer student looked gentle and neat, with a tranquil air, but showed no mercy on exams, holding his own against Luo Yan.

Their first meeting was charged with tension, and they naturally became the school's best-known rivals.

They competed to solve problems fastest in class and secretly tried to outdo each other on every test. When they ran into each other in the hallway, they acted like they couldn't stand one another, every line a verbal jab. Luo Yan couldn't stand Mu Yi's calm, unruffled manner, while Mu Yi refused to put up with Luo Yan's prickly temper. The whole class assumed the two top students would keep fighting throughout high school.

Amid their endless clashes and rivalry, their prejudices slowly began to crack.

Beneath Luo Yan's arrogant exterior was a loneliness few people ever saw. Beneath Mu Yi's gentle, refined appearance was a stubborn resilience that would not give way.

Their clashes, once driven solely by a need to prove who was better, quietly became tangled with an uncontrollable concern for each other. Luo Yan would instinctively protect Mu Yi when trouble found him, and Mu Yi gradually came to understand Luo Yan's awkward, clumsy bravado.

The rivals who had once been at each other's throats slowly lowered their defenses.

A young man's feelings take root amid the shadows and sunlight of a summer spent beneath the Chinese scholar trees. What began as a rivalry between two boys who couldn't stand each other ends in mutual love.

One fiery, one quiet; one stern, one thoughtful.

Among all the colors and sounds of the world, Luo Yan and Mu Yi are one of a kind.

Theme: Against the backdrop of youth and school life, two boys with very different personalities go from opposing one another to relying on each other, learning to accept themselves and follow their hearts along the way.