[School romance + sweet love + secret crush + mutual devotion + she pursues him first, then he pursues her]
Jian Dan got a new deskmate who barely ever spoke.
After meeting He Youli, she had to admit that among all the introverts, she was an unequivocal extrovert.
When he glanced a few times at the class beauty, she looked unimpressed and boldly declared, “Youth has no price tag. If you like someone, go get them!”
When he was down about his exam results, she rested her chin on her hand and said with total sincerity, “How about I go work at a factory and become its beauty queen, while you become its heartthrob?”
In those dull days, Jian Dan’s favorite thing was watching a blush spread across his face whenever she teased him. She thought it was ten thousand times prettier than the sunset sky.
But as time went by, she gradually realized that although she was always the one trying to start a conversation, he seemed to have eyes only for his homework.
Oh well, studying was the most important thing.
After they were assigned to different academic tracks
Jian Dan was walking to the cafeteria with a friend when her friend suddenly turned around and grinned at her. “Guess who I just saw?”
She smiled, at peace with it all. “I saw him ages ago.”
Her friend said He Youli had a secret no one knew about, except for the stack of yellowing draft paper tucked away in his locker.
Alongside the English vocabulary and densely packed equations, two initials were written on the pages.
