In the spring of their second year of middle school, the cherry blossoms at Teitan Middle School bloomed a full two weeks late.
Qiu Yingying felt that all the important things in her youth seemed to happen a beat later than they did for everyone else. For example, it took her a whole year longer than the others to realize she had fallen for Ma Tianyu from the class next door.
That boy was like an April breeze. He passed by her classroom window every day, yet never stopped. She secretly spent three months preparing a love letter, but when she slipped it into his schoolbag, her hand shook so badly that the writing blurred.
The next day, to her surprise, there was a note in her desk. It had only one line: "I've been late for a long time, too. I'm sorry."
It turned out that a secret crush wasn't a one-person show. Two late-blooming cherry blossoms had finally met in the same breeze.
Theme: Love
