Mountain Coral

Zhang Rufan has never been an easy person to like. Her closest friends and family describe her as “wooden to the point of stiffness, dull to the point of harshness”—and she wholeheartedly agrees. Until one day, she finds a love letter tucked within the pages of a book, written by eighteen-year-old Shen Mingjin. Believe this: Somewhere out there, someone is willing to give everything just to find you a single piece of coral in the mountains. So someone did like me, after all.