Jia Shi, Remember Today

(Long-planned schemes + saving each other + secret love becomes mutual)

(Problem girl and perfect boy)

Amidst the grand sweep of youth, during that endless summer, Wang Jinchao quietly fell for someone. She had loved him for a long, long time, and no one knew. It was an unspeakable secret, a warm ray of sunlight breaking through the clouds and shining into her heart, a private inner turmoil that belonged to her alone.

What Wang Jinchao didn’t know was that someone had already been tending the secret garden she thought was hers alone. Through all those years, she followed Zheng Wei’s footsteps, never noticing the gaze that was always fixed on her from behind.

She followed her sun, never realizing she had once been someone else’s sun, too.

Later, the boy remained behind in that summer of endless cicada cries, like a fragment of youth.

At some point, a new name appeared in Wang Jinchao’s life: Gu Jiashi. She knew that name. The top student on the grade rankings, the good student in the teachers’ eyes, the child other parents held up as an example. Compared to a poor student like her, they were worlds apart. He was unforgettable, just as his name suggested. He was handsome, excelled at school, and had a good personality. In all her memories of Gu Jiashi, she couldn’t find a single thing wrong with him. She couldn’t help wondering how anyone could be so perfect.

Zheng Wei: “Jinchao, didn’t you used to like me?”

How could you fall for someone else so quickly?

Wang Jinchao: “Zheng Wei, there’s no rule that says you have to like someone forever. I used to like you, but I don’t want to anymore.”

Liking you made me unhappy, and I don’t want to be unhappy anymore.

Wang Jinchao smiled faintly and said, “I’ve met someone really, really wonderful. I like him a lot.”