[A double-standard top student who ignores the world and cares only for one person × a genuine heroine, a quirky little angel and childhood friend] [Sweet Romance + Reunion After Years Apart + Mutual Secret Crush / Finding Their Way to Each Other]
"Don't make me catch you!"
He stopped in his tracks. Half his body disappeared into the darkness, making him look especially thin. The poor lighting left his face half in shadow, and his hand clenched tightly at his side, beside his school trousers.
He suddenly let out a quiet laugh. "Then I guess I won't run, in case you can't catch me and get mad. That wouldn't be worth it."
A soft laugh followed, its notes as tender and lingering as a piano melody, making the tips of her ears burn.
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To everyone else, Su Wenxi had a handsome, refined face. Taciturn and permanently at the top of the rankings, he was a lofty flower, too sacred to touch.
But his childhood friend, the girl who'd shared his trousers and slept in the same bed, not only plucked that flower, but also got him to step down from his pedestal and tell her, "Wen Jinnian, I don't want us to head in opposite directions. I want us to reach the same place by different roads. Wherever you are, I'll be there too."
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She knew that compared with a daisy in the open fields or a rose in a greenhouse, he was more like a climbing rose leaning against a wall, in need of tender care.
His sensitivity and low self-esteem made him dare only to protect her in silence, until a boy completely different from him appeared at her side...
Brazen, reckless, and utterly impossible to take seriously.
He had every right to be cocky, and every right to draw her attention.
Only then did he realize how petty he was: he couldn't stand anyone else making a move on her.
Loving someone is like tending a flower. Wen Jinnian was the one he had chosen as his beloved from childhood, and he would love her faithfully until the end of his life.
