"This is a story about a common boy from Yanjing and a girl from a small town in the Dongyang district swapping bodies..."
The lamp on the teacher's dormitory desk shone brightly, and Le Yu was writing furiously, starting to adapt "Your Name" for local context, laying the emotional groundwork for Qing Lan to see him as 'a completely different person' in the future.
In fact, the localization was quite simple. If the Imperial Academy was the highest honor for students, then a trip to Yanjing was the lifelong dream of most outsiders.
How much did outsiders yearn for Yanjing? Put it this way, in many local romance novels from Star Engraving County and Xuanzhu County, the male protagonist is often a 'son of a noble', 'disgraced young master', or 'disguised prince' from Yanjing. The ending is usually that the female protagonist goes to Yanjing with the male protagonist to live a happy life—Le Yu hadn't read these romance novels; they were all told to him by Qing Lan.
