When the Story Falls Silent

【A scheming, possessive male lead who can’t have the woman he loves and has secretly loved her for eleven years ✘ a cool, stubborn heroine who stays focused on her studies and career】 【Campus youth + reunion after years apart + unrequited love fulfilled + male lead who’s calculating and thinks only of the heroine + happy ending】 - Xu Nanshen had a crush on Meng Xinqiu for nine years. By the time she turned twenty-one, the current of time had finally started to wash away some of her feelings. For nine years, she had been torn apart day after day, unable to control the thought “I like Meng Xinqiu,” while telling herself, “I can’t like Meng Xinqiu anymore.” Day after day, year after year. Then one day, a friend brought up Meng Xinqiu. She smiled and said lightly, “He’s someone I used to like.” It was the day after she learned for the second time that Meng Xinqiu was in a relationship. She thought in a daze: Nine years began with a dream and ended in an absurd mess. She ran into the streets on a stormy night, as miserable and pitiful as a drenched stray kitten. Then she turned her head and saw the person who had always stood behind her, the one whose eyes had always held only her. He was still there, not a step farther away. She stayed still, and he walked toward her one step at a time, holding an umbrella over her. This was the person she’d hated throughout her entire youth. She stared at him, her eyes glistening with tears and stubbornness. “Why do you keep doing these things? What are you trying to say?” “Would you believe me?” He crouched down and looked straight at her. “I fell in love with you at first sight.”