[Two male leads, school setting, younger love interest, happy ending, sweet little romance, ensemble cast feel. The early introductions may be angsty, but it gets incredibly sweet later. Their feelings may seem a little abrupt at first, so please keep reading!]
The camphor leaves at Xishi No. 4 High School fell in two ways: the shards of his father's liquor bottle landed at Yu Yi's feet, while scraps of a homework notebook torn up by a former deskmate drifted into Liang Ying's collar.
When Yu Yi covered the back of his math test with X marks, Liang Ying was tearing up the last photograph of his classmates.
When Yu Yi hid in the bathroom counting his bruises, he had no idea that transfer student Liang Ying was blocking the harassing calls insulting him.
Liang Ying never said that through the blinds of the homeroom teacher's office, he had seen Yu Yi sobbing as he slipped into the bathroom. That night, his pencil point pierced right through his entire draft notebook. Just as Yu Yi never mentioned that when he found an image of Liang Ying maliciously edited, he secretly used correction tape to cover every filthy insult, then drew a crooked little star beneath the word “lonely.”
Only when they leaned against each other did Yu Yi finally see the faded cutting scars on Liang Ying's wrist, while Liang Ying's fingertips brushed the fresh scabs beneath Yu Yi's school uniform.
The wounds the world had folded away slowly unfurled in the damp breeze, becoming secret signals that answered one another.
The distance between you and me is only a shadow.
This book is really healing, I almost cried while reading it 😢