[The author's first work. The writing in the main story is rough, so read with caution.]
[Not an empowering female-lead fantasy + campus romance + sweet with angst + mutual pursuit + mutual healing + the female lead has psychological scars but is not someone who lets others walk all over her + everyone finds their own place]
She is a flower, and he is the morning sun.
Dong Li was sexually assaulted as a child, and the wound in her heart never healed. Then Yi Nan came along, like a beam of light, illuminating the scars left by her childhood.
Yi Nan had been desperately starved of love since childhood. His father disappeared, and his mother was often away all night. He began shutting himself off, hiding his smile and earning himself the label of “bad boy.”
On the first day of school in Nancheng, a late-arriving boy caught a glimpse of Dong Li in the classroom. Standing against the light, he fixed his gaze on her. It was love at first sight, a moment that would last forever. Dong Li's heart skipped a beat, and Yi Nan's heart was thrown into disarray too.
Dong Li often found herself smiling brightly without realizing it. Little by little, she plucked at Yi Nan's heartstrings, and soon he began playing the song called “Falling in Love.”
The little things Yi Nan did at school kept warming Dong Li's heart. Their friends, who confided in one another, warmed it too, and little by little, she began to open up.
Yi Nan illuminated the darkness in her heart, and Dong Li healed his loneliness. They both naively thought this would last forever, that it was the end of their story.
In the end, Dong Li asked through a sob, “Yi Nan, people our age never get a happy ending, do they?”
“Believe me, we'll always be inseparable.”
But all that remained on the pages of their youth was: “Li Nan won't part, Li Nan must part.”
