(Modern setting + school life + two strong leads + a touch of angst)
When Jiang Chi was sixteen, he met seventeen-year-old Yu Ji. She was unlike any girl he had ever known: stubborn, and impossible to sway once she had made up her mind.
She was his thorny rose, and he was her salvation.
“You know I’ve only ever loved you,” Jiang Chi told Yu Ji before leaving to compete overseas.
“All right. I’ll wait for you to come back... and marry me.” Yu Ji’s words were tinged with reluctance, but she still let Jiang Chi board the plane bound for another country...
“I’m back, Jiang Chi...” Yu Ji looked at the empty room, as if speaking to herself, or perhaps to him.
How I wish we could have spent our whole lives together... But I’ll never see you again.
Jiang Chi, I once had you, but I can never have you again. From now on, you’ll exist only in my memories...