Once Upon a Time in Lingjian Mountain (2019)

Su Yu’s simple high school life is turned upside down when his aloof stepbrother Wu Bi enters the scene—and a sudden accident unveils long-hidden secrets.

When children are unwanted by their parents, they are sent to the best boarding school in the country: Home School. However, Home School seems more like a prison than a school with its strict rules and regulations. Its curriculum is unique.

Considered a genius due to having the highest grades in the country, Miyuki Shirogane leads the prestigious Shuchiin Academy's student council as its president, working alongside the beautiful and wealthy vice president Kaguya Shinomiya. The two are often regarded as the perfect couple by students despite them not being in any sort of romantic relationship.

A struggling student becomes a caregiver to a fading badminton star, and as his sight slips away, the two forge a bond tested by time and fate.

Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be…and it turns out Anna's a bit odd herself!

Itsuki Hashima is a light novelist obsessed with little sisters, strictly focusing on them when he writes his stories. Despite his personality, he's surrounded by a tight circle of friends, including a beautiful genius writer who loves him, a big-sisterly college classmate, a fellow male writer, a sadistic tax accountant, his editor, and Chihiro, his perfect younger step-brother who takes care of the housework and cooking. As the story progresses, the underlying conflicts of dreams and goals surface, as each character attempts to achieve their dreams, in their own way.

Mew, Ray, Boston and Namchueam—a group of business students running a hostel together—blur the lines between friendship and romance.

After his jazz prodigy brother's death, Tae-yi loses interest in life. Se-heon, a passionate new student, rekindles memories of his brother through his music. Se-heon suspects a connection. But his return stirs tensions.

As one of the thousands of Japanese students afflicted with "chunibyo," a state where they're so desperate to stand out that they've convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden powers, Yuta spent most of his middle school years living in a complete fantasy world. He's finally managing to overcome his delusions but his chunibyo have attracted the attentions of another sufferer, and she's decided that this makes him her soul mate.

An ignorant but strong-willed man and an upper-class woman who struggles through life, work to fall in love.