My Blue Summer

My Blue Summer (, literally "Secret Love · Ju Sheng Huainan" ) is a 2022 Chinese youth romantic film directed by Bin Huang, and stars Xin Yunlai as Sheng Huai Nan and Sophie Zhang as Luo Zhi. The film was released in mainland China on June 2, 2022. This film is an adaptation of the novel Unrequited Love by Bayue Chang'an. It tells the story of Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan's childhood encounter, the silent competition in his youth, the unexpected reunion of college, and Luo Zhi's love for Sheng Huainan buried in his heart for more than ten years. Plot Dongshan county, Fujian province, southern China, Apr 2018. While on a business trip, hotshot lawyer Luo Zhi (Sophie Zhang) hears of the death of well-known Japanese anime director Takahata Isao, who made one of her favourite films, Only Yesterday おもひでぽろぽろ (1991). At an exhibition in his honour, she sees an old diary that she wrote in her teens (but lost at high school) devoted to her secret crush on a fellow pupil, Sheng Huainan (Xin Yun Lai). She asks if she can reclaim it, as it details a tale of unrequited love that began in her childhood. In 1998, when Luo Zhi was eight, her father had died in an accident at the factory where he worked. Soon afterwards she had met Sheng Huainan, the young son of the factory’s owner whom her mother was still harassing for more compensation money, claiming the workers were not properly insured. Luo Zhi had been entranced by the handsome Sheng Huainan, who was friendly towards her, but when her mother had seen them together she had dragged Luo Zhi away. Ten years later, in 2008, Luo Zhi was in her second year at Zhenhua Senior High and was the top pupil. But she’d been knocked off the top spot by the sudden arrival of a brilliant transfer student from a wealthy family, Sheng Huainan– which enraged Luo Zhi’s mother, who was still fighting for compensation from the Sheng family. When Luo Zhi had seen Sheng Huainan, she’d been immediately won over again by his humility and quietness, and started secretly following him around and imitating him.