Those Distant Throbs

In the early autumn of her first year of high school, an unexpected encounter brought a boy named Lu Xingci into Su Nianwan's world.

He was at the top of his class, handsome and refined, and distant with others, yet gentle at heart. Too shy to reveal her feelings, she could only find little ways to get closer to him through sheets of corrected homework. From the last autumn leaves falling to the arrival of winter, their small moments of tenderness gradually added up.

Their desks were not far apart, but their feelings had traveled a long way. This careful, tentative crush was a one-of-a-kind youthful flutter of the heart, belonging to the two of them alone.