A bittersweet ending. Set in 2014.
Sharp-tongued, cool, catlike girl x tsundere, loyal-dog illegitimate son
On a rainy day, a boy transferred to Changning No. 1 High School in a small town in southern China. He was handsome and got good grades, but he always had a cold expression. No one had ever seen him smile.
Then one day, everyone noticed Nie Fuxi smile at someone. After searching high and low, they finally found out who it was, and when they learned more about her, they scoffed.
Xia Xiyu? She was just a nobody who slept through class every day, did nothing, and got terrible grades.
Xia Xiyu was face-blind. After a year, she still couldn't recognize anyone except the people seated in front of and behind her, and her deskmate.
The first time she asked Nie Fuxi his name, he merely raised an eyebrow and thought nothing of it. He assumed it was some little girl's trick to get his attention. He'd seen it all before and wasn't impressed.
The second time she asked his name, he thought she was playing hard to get. She clearly knew it already, so why ask again? She could only be trying to hit on him.
By the third time, Nie Fuxi wondered if she was deliberately picking a fight, or if something was wrong with her eyes. Three times! He was so handsome, with such a handsome face, and someone still couldn't remember him.
Xia Xiyu: "Your face is handsome, but I can't match it to your name."
Nie Fuxi: "It's great that you can't remember anyone else. That's perfect. As long as you remember me, that's all that matters."
As far as everyone was concerned, the rumors between them were just Xia Xiyu making advances toward Nie Fuxi.
Nie Fuxi was a cool phoenix temporarily fallen into a chicken coop.
Xia Xiyu was just one of many dreaming of flying up to perch on the phoenix's branch.
They were different in so many ways, even a year apart in school. How could there possibly be anything between them?
Only Xia Xiyu knew how clingy he was in private. He wanted to snuggle up together every day.
[Changning is a place where it rains in every season.
Until the rainy day you left me,
a fine rain began to fall in my heart, too.]
Theme: When two people get tired of walking, they can hold hands and run together.
