Beautiful Time With You (时光与你都很甜)

Plot

Lin Xingchen transfers to a new school and becomes the deskmate of the top student Lu Yibai. What she expects to be a stroke of lottery-winner luck turns into a run of constant misfortune, but a difficult childhood left her with a resilient, unflappable temperament that puzzles Lu Yibai. From there the "jinx girl" and the "male god" navigate opposite ends of high school life, growing together and healing each other².

The novel gives the male lead's side of the setup: the 17-year-old academic star, precise and never wrong, is unsettled the first time he hears his new deskmate's name, because his younger sister, dying young, had donated her corneas to a little girl he had met a few times, and that girl was Lin Xingchen⁴.

The final arc turns on a cheating scandal and a school reshuffle: Zhang Haotian is falsely accused of cheating and leaves the school, the truth comes out in episode 29, the school's streaming of classes separates Lu Yibai and Lin Xingchen, Lu Yibai proposes abolishing the split, and after a drunk confession from Lin Xingchen he chooses to stay in China and makes a romantic declaration in the finale². Episode titles on the streaming platform confirm that the ending reveals the "older brother" who gave young Lin Xingchen candy was Lu Yibai all along⁶.

Characters and cast

• Lin Xingchen (林星辰), played by Lu Xiaoyu: the cheerful, clumsy transfer student of the title pairing².
• Lu Yibai (陆一白), played by Sun Zeyuan: the reserved top student who is gradually drawn by Lin Xingchen into the world of her laid-back classmates^{2 • 4}.
• Luo Qin'ge (洛钦歌), played by Wang Qing (王晴): Lin Xingchen's frank, hot-tempered best friend and the class arts committee member. As class committee member she reorganizes a solo ballet into a group performance for the school arts festival; she has a crush on the basketball team captain Fang Qi and practices ballet for him, and in the ending she and Chen Yimu, whose families are old friends, get together⁷. Wang Qing is a mainland Chinese singer who competed on the 2018 variety show Produce 101⁷.
• Yang Ruoying (杨若盈), played by Lin Xinyi (林昕宜): an outstanding, strikingly good-looking classmate who returns from study abroad and shows easy academic rapport with Lu Yibai, indirectly sparking Lin Xingchen's competitive drive and eventual growth⁸.
• Zhang Haotian (张昊天), played by Ao Ruipeng (敖瑞鹏): a stylish delinquent type who loves physics and modified cars and dreams of becoming a professional racer. He joins the class as a transfer student in the new term, helps classmates resolve conflicts and Lin Xingchen out of her troubles, and his high-profile return and later wrongful cheating accusation mark his arc⁹.
• Chen Yimu (陈易木), played by Sun Zhenyang (孙镇洋), and Fang Daqiang, played by Chang Haibo (常海波), round out the credited cast^{2 • 1}.