A Heartbeat in Autumn

A note beforehand: This book involves young love. If that's not your thing, please don't leave negative comments.

This book is based on a true story from my life.

“Lu Xiyue, your name means ‘moonlight just before dawn.’ The only thing I've ever learned to do in this life is shield you from every shadow before daybreak.”

When Lu Xiyue's father threw her out into the snowy night, Shen Liyan climbed over the wall and carried her away from that cold home.

They were childhood friends for sixteen years. She became the little shadow following behind him, and he became her only light.

He was the light in her darkness, and she was the one exception in his life.

On the surface, Shen Liyan was rebellious and unruly, the school's notorious “bad boy.” Fighting, skipping class, smoking: he did it all.

But only Lu Xiyue knew that

On nights when she had nightmares, he would climb through her window and keep watch until she fell peacefully asleep;

When she said, “I want mango pudding,” he would run all over town in the middle of the night to buy some and bring it to her window;

He was even willing to give up the best school just to stay by her side, content to be a “problem student.”

“You are the longest autumn in my brief life.”

“If one day I'm no longer by your side, you have to hate mangoes, so you won't be reminded of me.”

“Xiyue, shine like the aurora, and live on forever for me.”

You are the only thing in my brief life that I have never regretted.

In this world, there are countless kinds of misery, yet they all seem to fall upon one person.

For the heroine: In this life, I don't regret meeting him, falling for him, doing everything I did for him, or loving him.

The only thing I regret is that he ever met me.