You are my brilliant, beautiful day and night
Feng Yuwu (accusing): “Lan Ye, you’re so fake and pretentious.”
Lan Ye (calmly): “Takes one to know one. It runs in the family~”
Bystander (interjecting): “His family really does own a tea plantation.”
Feng Yuwu (stamping her foot): “Look at you, acting like such a jerk. Are you really the same Lan, the great singer who could sing and dance so well onstage?”
Lan Ye (unhurried): “Actually, I am drinking green tea today. Want a taste?”
Feng Yuwu (taking the tea): “...” I have no words.
Young Master Lan, an avid tea connoisseur, takes a sip of freshly brewed tea. “This tea is soothing. People are like tea leaves, and there’s an art to savoring tea. Life is all about finding peace. You shouldn’t be so restless.”
The next second, Shuang Rumu rushes in, frantic. “Something’s wrong! Zhi Zhi is surrounded by thugs!”
Feng Yuwu (muttering to herself): “Wouldn’t she be the one surrounding the thugs?”
Lan Ye sets down his tea, still calm. “Take your time. Where is she?”
“In an alley.”
Shuang Rumu (taking a sip of tea before continuing): “There’s a whole gang. And they have knives.”
Crack!
A fissure splits the teacup. Tender green tea spills out.
Young Master Lan (cursing in panic): “Why didn’t you say so sooner? And we’re just sitting here drinking tea! Da Wu, call everyone. I’m going to help my deskmate!”
Watching Lan Ye race off, even though he’d just been saying, “You shouldn’t be so restless,” Feng Yuwu shakes her head. “Tsk, tsk, tsk. Xiao Ye, look at you now.”
Main couple: (pretending to be) a cold, aloof beauty who loves music × (actually) a sunny, popular singer with the art of tea
Side couple: a sweet, friendly campus belle adored by everyone × a goofy, roguishly handsome, clingy campus bully who’s like a big puppy
The writing is beautiful