Lavender and Wild Roses

Eleven years ago, news that a woman who had been abducted had made it home safely shocked C City. Xu Cheng's life was turned upside down as well. To survive, she had no choice but to take a job that people looked down on. She had grown used to silently enduring the bullying from her classmates, the neighbors' gossip, and her teachers' scornful looks. The class was far from united, but when it came to giving Xu Cheng the cold shoulder, everyone was eerily in agreement. They were so united that if she ever couldn't take it and jumped from a building, her classmates would coordinate their stories so no one would get dragged down with her. Then a transfer student arrived. She would secretly replace the sanitary pads in Xu Cheng's bag with new ones, leaving a thoughtful note telling her not to use cheap, unbranded products. When Xu Cheng was bullied, she would stand up for her. And yet, if Xu Cheng weren't around, the girl might have become good friends with the rest of the class. Little by little, Xu Cheng realized she had developed feelings for the girl. But how could a crawling thing in a gutter ever hope for a bird in the sky...? Set at university! University! University!