Warm Sunflower

[Childhood Sweethearts + Reunion After Years Apart + Five-Year Age Gap]

Everyone at Xi High knows that campus heartthrob Lin Xun is like a jade-faced Buddha: aloof and chaste.

The boys envy him, the girls adore him. He is like the moon in the sky, beautiful but out of reach.

Then everyone saw the supposedly chaste young man scoop up a sweet-faced girl with one arm, his face full of affection.

The Xi High forum erupted, and everyone was curious.

Who was this adorable girl, to make such a cold-faced guy smile for the first time in ages?

*

When Lin Xun was eight, a new family moved in next door.

That was the first time Xia Kui saw Lin Xun. Young as she was, she thought the older boy was so handsome.

“Big Brother.”

Lin Xun saw the tiny, soft little thing, so much younger than him, calling him big brother.

That one call nearly melted his heart.

He rarely picked her up, but that day he did.

“What’s your name?”

“Big Brother, I’m Little Kui Kui.”

He kept holding her all the way until she was about to start university.

*

After the college entrance exams, Xia Kui and Lin Xun went their separate ways.

Five years later, they reunited.

“Brother Xun!”

Just as he had when they were children, Lin Xun picked Xia Kui up with one arm. A moment later, he frowned unconsciously.

“Little thing, have you put on weight? You’re so heavy.”

*

The story then shifts to Xi University, where rumors spread that the normally chaste professor is married.

But the professor announces it publicly, pulling Xia Kui, who had been watching the commotion from the crowd, into his arms.

“That’s right. I’m married, we have a kid, and I spoil my wife rotten. Don’t we, darling?”

PS: The story has a lighthearted style and is a sweet, slow-blooming romance.