He Just Doesn't Like You That Much

“Loving someone openly means watching them love someone else without hiding your feelings. Loving someone in secret means carefully watching how they love someone else.” A secret crush is a successful pantomime. Speak it aloud, and it becomes a tragedy. When seventeen-year-old Xia Muyi met sixteen-year-old Dong Letian, one stolen glance was all it took for her to fall deeply in love. He was her only salvation in the abyss. From then on, every year on her birthday, she made the same wish: I want to live sixteen years longer than him, to make up for the sixteen years I didn’t get to love him.