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At White Ravens University, where athletes train to become professional sportspeople, Alex is on the swimming team with her best friend, Xiuying. Having grown up mostly alone—parents absent and brother often busy with his own life—Alex tends not to meet new people unless she and Xiuying are together. After an embarrassing encounter with a boy from the volleyball team, Alex soon discovers that the world isn't so big after all and that the universe has a funny way of setting people up, especially when and with whom they're least expecting. Despite her reserved nature, Alex becomes part of a newly formed friend group consisting of four amazing people with different identities and personalities. As she tries to overcome her anxiety and negative past experiences, Alex finds herself both struggling with romantic feelings for a new acquaintance and facing a full-blown gender crisis.