1.
A new transfer student joined the class.
He had a handsome, refined face, but unfortunately, he was a little cold and distant. The homeroom teacher said he was an excellent student and told everyone to get along with him for the time being.
Back then, no one understood what "for the time being" meant. Not until they watched the transfer student skip grades again and again, leaving them all far behind.
2.
Everyone said Pei Shizhou was clever. Only Jing Shanyu thought he was an idiot. He couldn't tie his own shoelaces, didn't know the way home, and couldn't understand what people meant when they spoke.
After her crush on Pei Shizhou went nowhere, Jing Shanyu stubbornly said, "He's just a bookworm. What can he do besides study? Fine, we're over. I'll find someone even better."
Before she could finish, her friend beside her tugged at her sleeve.
She turned around to see the quiet, beautiful boy standing behind her, his dark eyes fixed silently on her.
3.
Pei Shizhou had known since childhood that he had emotional detachment disorder. The doctor said its typical symptoms were indifference to the things around him and a lack of emotional responses.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with that.
It let him focus more on his mathematical research without having to deal with boring social gatherings.
It wasn't until one late night abroad, when he accidentally opened an email account he hadn't used in a long time, that he discovered the countless messages that had kept arriving over the years. They held all of Jing Shanyu's youth.
Only then did he realize that he wasn't incapable of feeling. His feelings had simply arrived later than everyone else's.
#May we all hold on to loftier dreams#
#I thought that if I caught one butterfly, I could have all of spring#
Blurb captured on 2021.10.12.
*Male lead is younger than the female lead / school life first, then city life / no angst
At first, the male lead genuinely has no idea what it means to like someone. The female lead slowly teaches him. It's that feeling where everyone else thinks you're perfect, with good grades and good looks, but I'm the only one who knows you're a little idiot who doesn't even know what liking someone means.
Anyway, I really love that feeling of striving for each other and becoming better people!
The blurb may change. 1v1, happy ending
Theme: A secret crush comes true
