Paper Airplane

Shi Xian and Li Xiang grew up together as childhood friends. When they were little, the adults in their alley liked to tease them, saying their names sounded perfect together and they lived right across from each other, so they might as well have Li Xiang marry Shi Xian someday.

Six-year-old Li Xiang turned pale with fright and burst into tears. “I don’t want to marry Shi Xian! I don’t want to recite my times tables every day...”

Everyone laughed. Shi Xian clenched his fists beside her, his face red with embarrassment. “I’d never marry you!”

Six years passed, and when they met again, Li Xiang looked at Shi Xian, who had grown a head taller than her, and wondered in amazement, What kind of pig feed did he eat to get so tall?

After the placement exams at the start of the school year, Li Xiang felt miserable about her awful math score.

Shi Xian glanced at it. “How did you manage to get a score this lopsided? I could drop my answer sheet on the floor and step on it, and I’d still score higher than you.”

Li Xiang: “...”

“You’re so good at stepping on things. Do you have flat feet?”

“I did this badly, and you can’t even try to cheer me up?”

Shi Xian pondered for a moment. “You passed the humanities section. Not bad. At least you’re patriotic.”

Li Xiang took a deep breath. “You should just shut up. Hearing your voice makes me want to hit someone.”

Even so, they remained the closest people in each other’s lives.

At the weekly flag-raising ceremony, which took place every Monday without fail, Shi Xian put on his school uniform. Everyone’s eyes gathered on him as they noticed the stretch of bare forearm poking out from his sleeve, and fell into deep thought.

“...”

That blockhead Li Xiang had grabbed his uniform by mistake again.

Li Xiang stood in her class line, her sleeves hanging loose and long on both sides.

Damn it, why was this jerk Shi Xian involved again?

Then someone asked Shi Xian, “Do you like your childhood friend?”

Shi Xian denied it stubbornly. “Who likes her?”

Later, Li Xiang grew closer and closer to a transfer student in her class, and everyone noticed that Shi Xian’s expression kept getting darker.

Someone deliberately poked at his sore spot. “Your girl-next-door is about to become someone else’s.”

A current stirred in Shi Xian’s dark eyes. “Didn’t you hear the important part? She’s mine.”

His heart, impossible to keep in check, was growing wild with jealousy.

One evening after school, Li Xiang was unusually quiet.

“What’s wrong today?”

Shi Xian leaned in with a wicked grin, then froze.

“Your face is so red...”

Their footsteps overlapped. Li Xiang slowly asked in a small voice, “Shi Xian, what does it feel like to like someone?”

They were close enough that Li Xiang looked like a little sun reflected in his pupils. He caught a glimpse of the shy feelings in a young girl’s heart.

Shi Xian lowered his gaze to Li Xiang, bent down, and kissed her.

Then he straightened up and covered his face.

“That’s what it feels like.”

For the rest of his life, there would always be one summer he could never defeat: the summer named Li Xiang.

Sharp-tongued, scheming childhood friend x Oblivious, stubborn childhood sweetheart

Reunited after a long separation

Childhood friend turns into the one who appears out of nowhere

Light ensemble cast, an easygoing, sweet everyday romance

Theme: Study hard