Plane tree leaves fall, the summer breeze tastes sweet, and orange soda bubbles.
At the best age of my life, I met the boy who would light up my entire youth. In her second year of high school, the quiet, reserved Lin Zhixia kept every flutter of her heart hidden in the sidelong glances she stole at Jiang Yubai.
He was the top student in their year, a dazzling boy on the basketball court, a light she didn't dare approach.
She thought her secret crush would end in silence, never realizing that the boy who was always so kind as he helped her with her studies had already made a home for her in his heart.
From the desk by the classroom window to a confession on a snowy night, from studying side by side in their final year to a promise for a lifetime after graduation.
It turns out the best kind of youth is when I secretly fall for you, and you happen to love me too.
A mutual secret crush, a school romance steeped in the taste of orange soda, sweet through the whole summer and all the years to come.
