[Mutual pining ✖ Mutual salvation ✖ Rekindled romance]
Ravishing slum-born academic ace ✖ Cool, aloof campus heartthrob and top student
“Once-in-a-century beauty” rising star ✖ “Heartless capitalist” business tycoon
On a stormy evening, Yan Yi rescued Lin Shuyi from a bridge and walked her home beneath his umbrella, shielding her from the rain pounding down overhead. Though the rain had soaked his shirt and hair, the boy remained composed. To the shivering girl, he said, “Come to Qiao High. Your life will be different.”
Cool as the moon in the sky, the boy became the dream of Lin Shuyi’s youth.
Afterward, she worked herself to the bone and, as she had hoped, stood on the awards podium at the city’s best high school one September afternoon, delivering a speech alongside Yan Yi on behalf of the whole school.
A crush is usually a one-person show. But when a dozen pairs of eyes scrutinized them in the clubroom, the boy took all the blame himself. Word by word, he said, “I’m the one who likes her. I’m the one who pursued her. She has nothing to do with it.”
The girl who was once his first love fell from her pedestal. Ten years without contact passed. When they met again, my heart recognized you before I did.
Later, a hugely popular variety show catapulted the two of them to fame. On the show, the host interviewed the newlyweds. The top-tier star answered questions about their school days candidly on camera.
“I was the one who pursued him!”
Everyone noticed that Mr. Yan, who sat beside her like an accessory and was usually so cool and taciturn, had flushed ears, smiling eyes, and an irrepressible grin.
“Let me clear something up: Ms. Lin wasn’t the only one with a one-sided crush.”
We each had our reasons back then. Fate played a joke on us, then gave us the happy ending we deserved.
