Wild Tide Marks

[Sweet-and-cool girl VS scheming mixed-race young gentleman]

[Online gaming + healing each other + intense push and pull + both pure + reunion abroad]

The summer she was sixteen, she met Li Yinye for the first time. One glance was enough to take her breath away.

She thought they'd never cross paths again, until a dazzling transfer student suddenly showed up at No. 3 Middle School.

Later,

She followed behind him and said earnestly, “Let's climb the snowy mountain together again next year!”

Li Yinye turned to look at her. His misty eyes held countless unspoken thoughts. After a long silence, he said, “Okay.”

But she never got to see the next year.

In their senior year of high school, Li Yinye vanished from Tao Buyan's world for good.

All their ways of contacting each other stopped working. His game ID stayed gray forever. He was like data that had been erased, as if their meeting had been nothing more than a sudden summer rainstorm in her imagination.

After five years apart, they finally meet again on the streets of Vancouver.

By then, his family has molded him into exactly what they wanted: arrogant and noble.

She gathers her courage and asks him, “Have we met before?”

The young man tilts his head and lights a cigarette. A wisp of smoke drifts along his brow bone. Suddenly, he smiles. “Is this some new way of picking me up?”

“Sorry… I must have mistaken you for someone else.”

Heartbroken, she decides to return home once she has finished her studies.

But beneath the falling snow, he pulls her close and buries his face against her shoulder. His kiss lands in the hollow of her neck before her hot tears can.

“Please don't leave me, okay?”

[Reader's guide]: The online gaming storyline includes plenty of original worldbuilding. If that's not your thing, feel free to skip it~

[Theme]: A reunion after a long separation isn't a defeat. It's the soul recognizing an echo older than its own heartbeat, hidden in a promise they once swore to keep watch over each other.