Hear My Heartbeat

[The person you've secretly loved anonymously suddenly becomes your one and only "exclusive listener."]

On a late-night radio show, she is the anonymous host "Little Star," using her gentle voice to wrap up a secret no one knows: her two-year crush on the campus heartthrob, Gu Yanche. She thought her feelings would never be returned, until the love letter she was delivering for her best friend accidentally ended up in Gu Yanche's backpack in her panic.

The campus forum explodes, and she is gripped by the terror of public humiliation. But what happens next is beyond anything she could have imagined.

Gu Yanche, distant and cool as the moon hanging above campus, begins to show up in her life with suspicious regularity: the seat beside hers at the library, the same elective class, and even his repeated requests on her radio show for "Little Star Variations," a piece hiding both their names.

What makes her heart race even more is a sudden power outage. As the crowd falls into chaos, he struggles to control his trembling, yet finds her hand in the darkness with uncanny precision. His burning palm and quick breaths are right beside her, as if she were the only lifeline in a chaotic world.

"Your voice has a special calming effect on me." He draws close under the pretext of a student council collaboration, then binds her to his side with a pact of "voice therapy." She tumbles into a dream that seems both real and unreal, discovering his hidden tenderness: how he can't handle spicy food, and how he secretly feeds stray kittens.

But just as their feelings grow, rumors and the divide between their families suddenly loom over them. She chooses to retreat, only to hear his clear, resolute voice on the radio on a rainy night: "I knew it was you. I've known from the beginning. Every coincidence I created was a certainty, all so I could find my way to you."