Jiang Yao has always been afraid of two things. First, the boy next door, who is a year older than her. Second, bugs, the wriggly kind, whether they’re fuzzy or smooth.
Luckily, the neighbors moved abroad before Jiang Yao started school. But she was still afraid of bugs.
As a child, Meng Xize loved teasing the little girl next door. Since she was afraid of bugs, he would make her cry every time he showed her a caterpillar. He thought she looked especially cute when she cried, with her little mouth puckered up.
But the little girl just didn’t like him. He even gave her his favorite storybook, a collection of ghost stories, but she still didn’t like him. She cried again.
So Meng Xize gave Jiang Yao her first nickname: Little Crybaby.
In their senior year, the Meng family moved back because of his parents’ jobs, and Meng Xize returned to Xunyang High School. By sheer coincidence, he transferred into Jiang Yao’s honors class...
The Little Crybaby had grown up and wasn’t so easy to tease anymore. Still, he had to give it a try. But the more he teased her, the more he fell for her!
Jiang Yao never expected the nightmare from her childhood to return. But so what? She could just pretend she didn’t know him. He was a pest, after all. She could simply ignore him. So why wouldn’t this pest leave her alone? He was seriously getting in the way of her studies!
Meng Xize didn’t win her over until college. All those tears and struggles were worth it!
