[Stubborn, aloof girl × warmhearted boy pretending to be cold]
Shi Yi grew up wild and independent. She has always lived by the rule that neither person should owe the other a favor, yet time and again she breaks it when Gu Ou helps her.
“You don’t have to keep looking after me just because my brother told you to,” Shi Yi says coldly, refusing his kindness.
“…Is that why you’re turning down my help?” Gu Ou laughs freely beneath the lights.
“I help you because it’s what I want to do. I like… helping you.”
Sour lemon candy can’t slow the rhythm of a racing heart. Helping you is what I want to do, and so is loving you.
[Both characters’ first love + campus romance + love grows over time + mutual secret crush]
