When the Kapok Blooms, Words and Laughter Fill the Air

[Sweet youth romance + healing each other + second chance romance + a little angst, a lot of sweetness + groveling pursuit of his ex]

After breaking up over summer vacation, Chen Jinyan returned to school and discovered that Qin Yan had gotten more handsome, and that he was sitting right beside her.

Qin Yan was cold and aloof, and never went near girls. When he learned Chen Jinyan had broken up with her boyfriend, he began plotting, finally ready to make his move.

But once Chen Jinyan fell for him, he stood her up time and time again.

“I heard you’re a jerk.”

“Think whatever you want.”

“Then let’s stop being friends. I think of you as a friend, so what do you think of me?”

“Whatever.”

Later, Chen Jinyan developed mild depression. Drawing was her faith, so she joined the art class, where a boy from the music class next door pursued her. One day, Qin Yan cornered her in an alley. His eyes were bloodshot, and he could barely hide his love for her.

“Can we make up?”

*

“Yanyan, let’s be together.” His gaze was earnest and unwavering.

“I don’t like you right now.”

His eyes bloodshot, he pleaded in a low voice, “What would it take for you to like me?”

She didn’t like him now, but maybe she could like him later.

There was nothing he could do about it. In this life, Qin Yan was completely in her hands.

On graduation day, Qin Yan pinned Chen Jinyan against the wall, his eyes full of restrained longing.

“What am I to you now?”

She smiled. “A source of entertainment.”

“Your entertainment is here to make you happy.” He wrapped a hand around her slender neck and kissed her hard. After her legs went weak, he murmured, “I’m sorry, Yanyan. Don’t ignore me.” He buried his face in her neck, pleading and acting spoiled in a low voice as he greedily breathed in her uniquely sweet scent.

He was her knight, and her prince,

and, more than anything, the light that saved her.

The heroine grows stronger in the later chapters and has everything under control.