My Quirky Japanese Boyfriend

A Tokyo tale based on a true story, a beautiful encounter in a foreign land, a love story scattered beneath the cherry blossoms. Love unfulfilled, halted just inches away. The years pass, yet the flowers bloom again as before. You, still standing where you were, when you turn around next time, will you be able to look back and see the young man beneath that cherry tree?

Li Shasha was once a Chinese student studying in Japan. Like all Chinese students there, she worked part-time while going to school. She thought her days would pass quietly like that, and that her student life abroad would hold nothing but simple, happy friendships. But in her third year of university, she met a Japanese boy named Horiuchi Xinye. Bound together by the threads of fate, the two kept crossing paths, suffering through the torment of loving someone they could never have. In the end, Li Shasha resolved to leave Japan and pursue her dream of studying in the United States, saying goodbye to a land she both loved and hated. Seven years later, when Li Shasha returned to Tokyo, all her memories came rushing back like a tide. More than anything, she wanted to see him one more time...