Hotaru doesn't fall in love at first sight. She falls in love by asking herself why she's falling, and the show sits with that confusion without flinching. Hananoi's neediness reads like trauma, not romance, and watching her figure out the difference between caretaking and love is the entire point. This is a show about two people learning that being wanted isn't the same as being loved.

Hotaru Hinase is a first-year high school student with supportive friends and a loving family, yet romance remains a complete mystery to her. That changes when she sees Hananoi, the attractive boy from the next class over, sitting alone in the snow after a messy public breakup. She holds her umbrella over him, a small kindness toward someone she has never spoken to, and the next day he asks her out in front of her classroom. Hananoi loves with an intensity that catches her off guard, throwing himself into gestures large and small to win her over. Though she feels nothing romantic for him, Hotaru agrees to date him, hoping that time together will teach her what love means. What follows is a drama about first love between a girl who has never understood romance and a boy whose devotion may be a little too much.