Gu Yuyao could have stood on her own that first snowy winter, but his arrival made her willingly hold back. 2021.11.6
On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, he said, “Kid, you can’t be just an orange, squeezing out all your juice only to be thrown away. You should be a fruit tree, blooming in spring and bearing fruit in autumn, flourishing year after year. Better yet, be a towering tree. You don’t need someone to lean on, and you shouldn’t be crying all the time.” But the boy never knew what Yuyao wished for. She met Gu Zhixiao on the road, but they parted at a fork. She met an old friend, then wished never to see him again.
Still, there’s no denying he will always be part of her youth. Open ending, bad ending.
He will always be in her youth.
Gu Yuyao is a strong female lead. She runs a literary studio and the “Sweetness in Yuyao’s Wishes” public account, and her side business is a cafe called “Sweet Coffee, Bitter Tea.” By the time her career starts to stabilize, she has no interest in love. One day, while the cafe is being renovated, she reunites with Lu Jieyan, an engineer who has returned from abroad. Could the boy who once left without a word have a future with her? Miss Gu already has Mr. Cao by her side. Will he keep clinging to her, or will he willingly become the other man for love? Years later, they are no longer worlds apart. Miss Gu says, “So, Mr. Lu, you finally decided to come home.” The young man still habitually calls her “Junior Gu.”
A story about the bittersweet adult lives of a 2019 senior and a 2021 junior at Rongcheng Civil Engineering University. The Lu Yao and Jia Xin couples, along with various family storylines. The novel concludes with Chapter 142. This is the debut novel of a nineteen-year-old beginner, so please be kind about the writing. The character profiles and background details from the early chapters will be filled in gradually.
