The Rules of a Secret Crush

A story of mutual secret crushes, featuring a cool, shy female cellist and a sunny, gentle band frontman In 2040, a time-capsule app and a letter from twenty years earlier send Chi Yi transmigrating back to 2017. There, he meets his eighteen-year-old mother and decides to help her pursue her first love, giving her a hand with her secret crush. The family storyline: Chi Yi goes to great lengths to help his mother get into the same university as the person she likes. When his mother chats with her crush: “You just haven’t done enough practice problems.” When his mother gets bullied: “Touch my mom and see what happens. Let’s find out who takes who down.” A cool, top-ranked student from the future who, in secret, is just a little cutie who likes to act spoiled around his mom. “Having Mom is all I need.” “Once I’m grown up, I’ll protect you, Mom.” The romance storyline: Chi Xixi’s rule for having a crush is that she’d rather die than admit she likes you. She even has to hide the fact that she likes you. Two people secretly in love, each too afraid to confess, yet furtively testing the waters with each other. “How about this? To prove you really don’t hate me, you have to say three things to me every day.” “Would four be okay?” “Sure.” “What about five? Six?” “Sure.” “Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve?” “A hundred, a thousand, ten thousand. That’s fine too.” “I’d be happy to talk to you for the rest of my life.” A secret crush is a one-person show, but mutual secret crushes are not. “Because I like you, I only want to come closer to you.” Regular updates in November, one chapter a day