Forty Minutes of Goodbye Qingmei

The story takes place in a "super large rural area" with a total population of only about 3,000 people. Qiao Musen is an ordinary high school sophomore who goes to a local middle school and is always a little sleepy. Gu Maidong is the only "current" girl among her peers who has been admitted to an elite private high school in the city. Although the two were childhood sweethearts, their relationship gradually became estranged after they entered high school and went to different schools. They always looked at each other without saying a word when they met on the same school bus. Until one day, a sudden opportunity broke the silence, and the two started talking again in the bus compartment for 40 minutes. As we get along on the bus every day, the strange sense of distance between "friends" and "love" begins to change quietly...