Mutual secret crushes + reunion after years apart + devoted couple + healing + happy ending
In the second semester of her first year of high school, transfer student Yu Sheng meets Yuan Man, the most famous boy on campus. He makes her cry on their very first day, and she becomes a coward in his eyes.
Yuan Man’s preference for Yu Sheng is obvious for everyone to see, but she keeps her feelings for him a secret, written on paper cranes.
Five years later, Yuan Man asks her, “It’s snowing in Jiangcheng. Will you come back?”
Yu Sheng replies, “I saw the snow in Jiangcheng, but I didn’t see you in it.”
Standing on the rooftop and watching the snow fall over campus, Yu Sheng thinks: “The rooftop wind has overheard so many of my secrets. The one thing it doesn’t know is that when I said friends last longer than lovers, I was afraid you wouldn’t like the real me.”
At the place where Yu Sheng once rejected him, Yuan Man asks, “What makes you think you weren’t good enough for me before, but you are now? I loved you so much. I said I’d protect you. Why did you leave…”
Only later does Yu Sheng realize that a seventeen-year-old’s love can run this deep.
When you are in the prime of youth and meet such an amazing person who loves you, you will never forget it for the rest of your life! The author wrote the feeling of secret love so well. The male protagonist is too much like Jin Tan in "The Heirs", affectionate and dedicated, romantic and jealous. The female protagonist was harmed by her mother, and the male protagonist is her salvation. My favorite thing in the book is the male protagonist's parents. They are rich but not powerful. They don't look down on the female protagonist. Instead, they laugh at their son for being a love brain 🤭