Shy, adorable, devoted male lead x cheerful, outgoing, quirky female lead
The male lead openly and shamelessly likes the female lead! There's a secondary couple too! So good!
In a corner of the school, I found your diary. I have never been one to pry into other people's privacy, but the cover showed two snarling rats. In the bottom right corner was the school crest sticker handed out to every graduate by my county high school, which always ranked near the bottom of the city. You had carefully sealed the sticker under clear tape. I still don't know whether curiosity made me act on impulse, or whether I was drawn in by the fascinating soul behind those two rats. Either way, I opened it.
After that, I couldn't stop. Our overlapping, strikingly similar life experiences resonated deeply with me.
So you were the person I'd spent my youth chasing, always seeming just out of reach.
Your delicate writing and fascinating soul had me wanting to find you time and again, but I could always come up with a reason to make myself stay calm.
Then I turned to the later pages and found your diary of unrequited love. I couldn't hold back anymore. By all rights, I should have recognized my own feelings, chosen the right moment, and returned your diary. After all, the ties between people are fleeting, and to you, I was a complete stranger.
But I didn't want to do what I was supposed to. I wanted to do whatever it took to hold on to this fragile thread of fate and get closer to you.
