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[Cen Sui x Xia He]
[Childhood friends, sweet and bittersweet at first]
[Later, the heroine seeks a stand-in, while the hero chases his wife through a trial by fire; the gentle, refined hero wins out over the third party]
Cen Sui has a crush on someone: the boy next door.
His name is Xia He.
Ever since they were little, everyone told Sui Sui to call him Big Brother, but she never listened. She always called him “Xia Xia.”
Xia Xia is five years older than Sui Sui. He excelled in both academics and conduct from a young age, and was always gentle and modest with others.
He treated Sui Sui even better than he treated the other children.
One summer during her second year of high school, while half-asleep, Cen Sui secretly kissed Xia Xia.
But after he left for school, he didn’t come back until after Cen Sui finished her college entrance exams, and he brought a girlfriend with him.
Cen Sui neither cried nor made a scene. She simply changed her college application to a city farther away from his.
In her third year of college, Cen Sui was out on a date with her boyfriend when she received a message from him.
What she didn’t know was that, inside the cafe not far away, the usually composed Xia Xia had eyes red with tears.
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Xia He may be gentle and modest, but he works in investment banking. There’s no way he could still be the innocent Xia Xia of Cen Sui’s memories.
He has become despicable and unscrupulous, steeped in mature allure.
[The hero is sexually inexperienced. The reason he got a girlfriend is explained from the beginning.]
The writing is very good, and the content of the story is also good, but I don't know if Sui Sui and Xia Xia can be together in the ending 🥺