Leah Zhang is traveling across China’s most beautiful cities to get back to her roots, but the boy who ruined her life is also on the trip, and the deeper they wander into China’s provinces, the deeper she falls in love. Simultaneous eBook. - (B & T Entertainment)

After making a cultural blunder at her cousin's wedding, seventeen-year-old Leah travels to China to connect with her roots and winds up falling for a former classmate on the trip, who she previously blamed for ruining her life. - (Baker & Taylor)

An instant New York Times bestseller!

From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller I Hope This Doesn't Find You comes another hilarious and romantic romcom, this time following a former model determined to get revenge on the boy who ruined her life.

Leah Zhang has just ruined her cousin's wedding. She didn't mean to wish the bride a depressing marriage and poor health, but she's forgotten most of her Mandarin. Her parents stage an intervention: Leah will be sent on a travel program across China's most beautiful cities. To them, it’s the perfect opportunity for Leah to get back to her roots. To Leah, it’s simply a much-needed escape.

But before Leah can even begin to enjoy the luxurious hotels, stunning scenery, and mouth-watering cuisine, she finds that also on the trip is cynical, sarcastic Cyrus Sui, who’s somehow only gotten more annoyingly handsome since the day he told a lie that ruined her life.

While Leah might be tempted to shove him off the peak of the Yellow Mountain when nobody’s looking, she can’t get rid of him just yet. After all, she might never get another chance to get revenge.

Yet the deeper they wander into China’s provinces, the deeper Leah finds herself falling in love — with the boy she once thought she despised, the home she never thought she’d call her own, and the parts of herself she thought were already lost.

Booklist Reviews

*Starred Review* Leah Zhang doesn't have much going for her. She quit modeling, fumbled a traditional Chinese blessing and ruined her cousin's wedding, and is now on a two-week trip across China with none other than her irritating childhood nemesis. Leah doesn't know who she is or what the future holds, but she knows this much: she's going to get revenge on Cyrus Sui, even if it means making him fall in love with her. This task proves much easier than it initially sounds, as the two are thrown together again and again on their journey. The more time she spends with her fellow travelers, the more Leah blossoms into who she really is and the harder it becomes to remember that Cyrus is her enemy, not her friend—or boyfriend. Leah and Cyrus are kindling sparking off each other as the flame of their love grows. Liang's prose is stunning, the book full of jaw-dropping descriptions of settings paired with incisive insights into the teen characters' psyches. Leah doesn't see herself clearly at all, and her first-person narration reflects this, but through nifty storytelling tricks, Liang is able to give readers an accurate image of our leading lady. By turns laugh-out-loud funny, achingly earnest, and deeply romantic, Liang's latest rom-com is a journey of self-discovery and self-love that is a true delight. Grades 8-12. Copyright 2025 Booklist Reviews.

Publishers Weekly Reviews

In this quintessential rom-com by Liang (I Hope This Doesn't Find You), a former model turns a cultural excursion into an opportunity for revenge on her childhood nemesis. Chinese American 17-year-old Leah Zhang isn't the strongest Mandarin speaker in her family. So when the language barrier leads to a mortifying faux pas at her cousin's wedding, her parents enroll her in a travel program voyaging across China, hoping the experience will help their daughter reconnect with her roots. For Leah, though, the trip offers a chance to escape from L.A. and the remnants of her past modeling career. That is, until she learns that cynical, sarcastic, and handsome former classmate Cyrus Sui is also attending the program. Leah still hasn't forgiven him for a past incident that forced her to transfer schools, and while she's tempted to shove him off the Yellow Mountain range, she instead hatches other revenge schemes. But as she learns more about Cyrus, she's torn between vengeance and romance. Hilarious and heartfelt, this story of budding young love simultaneously emphasizes the connections between romantic partners, between the characters and their culture, and with themselves. A comedic supporting cast adds further layers to this fast-paced trip of inward and outward discovery. Ages 12–up. Agent: Kathleen Rushall, Andrea Brown Literary. (June)