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The daily life of high school boarding student Lin Xiaoman unfolds: On the first day she moved into dormitory 302, she met her carefree roommate Chen Xi, the quiet top student Su Xiao, and the boy from the next class, Lu Zhou, who always liked to "drop in". From the bell ringing for morning exercises in the early morning and the rush for food in the canteen, to the whispers in the dormitory late at night, and cramming before the exam; from watching the sunset together on the playground, to staying up late to practice singing for the class chorus competition, to the ignorant thoughts hidden in the textbooks... The story does not have ups and downs, but uses small fragments to connect the warmth and growth of boarding life - there are bickering and mutual help among roommates, small episodes in class, confusion and expectations for the future, and even those little unspoken thoughts in adolescence. It is like a diary full of details, recording how a group of teenagers used companionship to resist loneliness in a closed campus, diluted stress with laughter, and finally quietly left the mark of their youth in ordinary days.

This novel is titled "Beautiful Love" and tells the story of Lin Xiaoman, a night shift clerk at a convenience store, and Shen Nian'an, an art student, who met each other for the first time. In the warm light of a convenience store in the early morning, the silent Shen Nian'an bonded with the attentive Lin Xiaoman over two cans of hot cocoa. From the initial strangeness and alienation, to sharing the fragments of each other's lives - his concentration in the studio, her clumsy but sincere concern, the band-aid on a rainy night, the moon they shared while sketching, and the hug in the rain curtain, the two people quietly connected their hearts. They experienced the tension of interviews and the joy of exhibitions together, and stayed together when faced with the choice of development in a different place. From a small southern town to a rental house in Beijing, they supported and warmed each other in ordinary and trivial days. In the end, Shen Nian'an proposed with a ring that was a replica of the token from when they first met, confirming that this relationship that began with subtle tenderness has long since settled into a long-lasting relationship. The story uses delicate strokes to outline the most authentic appearance of love: it is hidden in the agreement made at 2:17 in the morning, hidden in the moonlight of the studio skylight, and melted in the hot cocoa shared on winter nights. It is the determination and warmth from the heartbeat when we first met to the determination and warmth of "I will go wherever you are" after time has polished it.