Miyang's Smile

An ordinary girl, Luo Miyang, comes from a modest family and looks plain, yet she has always held an uncommon wish: to stand where the music is played, and to stand beside that one person. The story begins outside the music room of Qingli Academy, where she watches through the glass a boy absorbed in playing, hears the words "only a princess can stand beside Nuo," and so picks up her luggage, smiles, and makes a vow. For that resolve she transfers to the wildly popular Sakura Aristocrat Academy. On her first day she is mistaken, by a twist of fate, for someone specially connected to the school's celebrated "Golden Prince," An Shiyunkui, and though mockery and exclusion follow, the smile on her lips is never wiped away; with her sincerity she gradually wins back her classmates' goodwill. While working part-time at the "Elf Cake Shop" her father once ran, she meets An Shiyunkui again. He tastes in a cake she made a happiness long missed, and imperiously demands that she teach him to bake; she proposes that he work part-time at the shop for a month in exchange. Meanwhile the exchange student and "Piano Prince" Qiu Lijin is organizing a music club, and Luo Miyang signs up her roommate An Yanxi, who is bound by her family, and so steps into the music club herself. Through baking, the violin, and one mishap after another, she teaches a proud boy to learn happiness again, and lets herself be seen by more people. This is a campus youth novel about dreams, courage, and gentle persistence.