Zhu Yihe, a college student, seemed to hit adolescence and rebellion a little later than everyone else. While other girls in high school were flirting, dieting, and acting out, she was doing practice problems and watching anime. While other girls in college were dating, dieting, and making close friends, she was being willful, self-absorbed, and divisive. It seemed that her rebelliousness and social awkwardness had all been submerged in a sea of homework, only to gradually reveal her ugly nature once she reached college. Until she met him. The boy she called "Pink Hat." Him in the night, him beneath the dim lights of a cafe, him wearing a brightly colored or soft pink hat: he completely changed her life and her state of mind. Was meeting him a calamity or a stroke of luck? It is too soon to tell. Youth is long, and time moves slowly. The rest of life can unfold at its own pace.
Theme: Some things are destined to remain unresolved in this lifetime.
