[Female protagonist’s growth + subverting tropes + friendship + no rivalry between women + men get put through the wringer]
May be read from a girl-loving perspective
A seventeen-year-old girl’s troubles
are bad relationships,
a body grown plump from stress,
and a forehead densely marked with acne scars.
They are feelings she can never put into words.
Wen Liang, who had suffered severe psychological trauma, poured all her passion into the person on the other side of the screen, lowering herself to the dust. Carefully prepared gifts, long letters written in the dead of night, timid attempts to please him... In the end, his indifference crushed it all. When she discovered he had feelings for someone else, her heart died completely. Deleting and blocking him was the last scrap of dignity she could give herself.
Two years is enough time for someone to become a different person. They meet again at the university student union. She is a low-key yet exceptionally capable department head, intent only on the present and determined to leave the past behind. But fate has other plans: the newly appointed president is the very person she never wants to see again.
He is still gentle and refined, his eyes filled with the emotion of meeting an old acquaintance again. She, however, cannot spare even the slightest stir of feeling. Her coldness is like an invisible wall. He tries to get closer, but all he touches is her armor-plated indifference. She is no longer the girl whose moods rose and fell with his. He no longer matters in her world.
