How Could Her Upturned Gaze Compare to His Deliberate Devotion?

[Secret crush becomes mutual love + both devoted to each other + long-planned romance + school days first, city life later + sweet romance + happy ending]

Rumor had it that Lan Jiaping had been dating a girl for three years.

His WeChat profile read: [Meeting her was where all my stories began.]

Su Zitong watched him transfer into her school, like he was a dream she could never reach.

Being by his side as a friend was enough.

*

On the day of their high school graduation, colorful ribbons fluttered down from the school building, blanketing the campus. Everyone was caught up in memories of their three years of youth, tears and laughter mingling together.

Across the surging crowd, Lan Jiaping looked at Su Zitong. Su Zitong gazed back at him through the sea of people.

Amid the swelling crowd and clamor, they silently gazed at each other.

They were kindred spirits meeting at the summit, and each held all the other’s youthful longing.

*

They met again at university, and a flimsy excuse led to a brief relationship.

He leaned down, pressing against her slender neck, kissing her everywhere.

She was lost in it, unable to pull herself away.

When she learned that this dream was about to end, she turned and left, holding back her pain, shattered inside.

Nearly frantic with obsession, he stared at her with reddened eyes. “Su Zitong, don’t leave me.”

*

Later, everyone knew that this rich young master was a hopeless romantic.

Years ago, he had caught one unforgettable glimpse of her at a cram school, and a single jasmine flower had swept away the gloom that clouded his world.

At last, a ray of light had entered the depths of his heart, where the sun had never shone.

She was the only cure for everything he had been through.

That night,

he pinned her beneath him and rasped, “Tell me you love me.”

She furrowed her brow and clutched the blankets, answering him again and again...