[Campus Romance + Older Woman + Secret Crush + Angsty Before Sweet + Music Accompaniment]
(This book is even better if you listen to the songs mentioned in it with headphones!)
At twenty-six, Jiang Shao has just started a new job when, on the first day of school, he meets Song Shimin, a sixteen-year-old beginning her first year of high school.
He is instantly drawn to her innocence and candor,
and she falls for him because of his tenderness and unwavering protection. She realizes he likes her too, and gathers the courage to ask him for an answer.
But knowing he cannot give her one at the time, he denies his feelings.
Already convinced the whole world has abandoned her, Song Shimin sinks into even greater despair.
Then, after an accident leaves her injured during her sophomore year, she discovers Jiang Shao's feelings once more.
But those awkward, inexperienced feelings are like a bitter fruit too hard to swallow, and neither of them can ever quite taste happiness.
Until another girl with a secret crush on Jiang Shao appears, shattering the brief happiness between Song Shimin and Jiang Shao...
Ten years later, when the familiar song "Bridge of Tears" plays again,
Song Shimin finally lets that relationship go for good, tears in her eyes.
But Jiang Shao comes to his senses and decides to pursue her.
So, at Song Shimin's wedding,
he rushes in and drinks the wedding wine before her groom can,
then sweeps her away.
This time, he won't let her go.
