A high school student who lost her mother to illness longs to experience the kind of perfect love her parents had. Then, even as she is still trying to understand what love is, she meets someone whom she feels inexplicably close to, someone who was important to her even before they met! Taiwan’s queen of Gen Z romance, Misa, writes about first loves in her latest full-length fantasy novel.

It has always been Lin Pei’s dream to have an earth-shattering romance before she graduates from high school. After betting a friend that she can find someone to fall in love with within three months, she boldly asks out the most popular guy at school, only to discover that he already has a crush on her friend. Things get even more complicated when Lin Pei learns that the guy her friend has a crush on is actually interested in herself. Even before she’s figured out what love is, Lin Pei is already entangled in a love quadrangle!


Bookworm Chieh’s life revolves around homework and tests until, one day, the new transfer student topples her from the top of the testing leaderboards. Unwilling to admit defeat, she marks the bad-boy newcomer as her academic adversary. However, unbeknownst to Chieh, this bad-boy cares far less about grades than he does about his romantic daydreams concerning Chieh. Is it possible that this model student and clever troublemaker are a match made in heaven?


Each absorbed in their own problems, these two high school girls miraculously meet, and soon they are sharing their deepest thoughts concerning life, romance, and the all-important question of exactly what it is that makes someone fall in love. As their discussions unfold, a strange feeling takes hold of them. Could they be more than strangers who met by chance? Might they have met in their past lives, and now karma has brought them together once more?


With its lucid and flowing prose, Meeting and Missing You is a touchingly true-to-life narrative that deftly blends in elements of fantasy, taking readers back to a time when our biggest troubles always seemed to revolve around friends, family, and romance. This vivid portrayal of the tentative steps and inevitable stumbles of youthful romance is a time machine of the spirit, sending readers straight to the heart of their own innocent first loves.