[Dual female leads | Blunt and a little slow to catch on x gentle flirt] [Reunion after years apart + mutual salvation + slow and steady romance + small-town life + stream-of-consciousness, emotion-focused writing + food]
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In her third year in Qingshan, someone moved in next door to Yu Qingjun. Her name was Zhou Hui, supposedly Yu Qingjun’s primary school desk mate.
Zhou Hui was a woman of contradictions, with many sides to her. The more time Yu Qingjun spent with her, the more fascinated she became.
At their first meeting, Zhou Hui was polite and warm. She didn’t mind that Yu Qingjun had forgotten her, and gently asked, “Have you been doing well all these years?”
At their next meeting, she was gentle and a little shy, quietly leaning against the wall to read, then standing in the yard to watch Yu Qingjun go inside.
As time went on, Yu Qingjun saw her courage, loneliness, coldness, madness, and vulnerability… She thought that a soul so extraordinary, housed in a beauty so rare, ought to belong to her.
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In the purest days of their love, Zhou Hui held out her bank card and physical examination report and confessed to Yu Qingjun. “I like you. Would you give me a chance to pursue you?”
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The world is vast, and Qingshan is small. Stories happen every day. Some people meet and part beneath a shower of flowers; others are abandoned by their past amid the ruins… When those who parted meet again, and those who were abandoned recall their past, what will they do?
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[The blurb ends here. Please read the following guide]
1. Two female leads; the secondary couple is a man and a woman.
2. All lovingly handmade, top-quality fare. Come have a taste; you won’t regret joining in.
3. Lots of foreshadowing and a slow pace, with a small amount of fantasy elements in the middle.
4. Two endings: the main story has a happy ending, and the bonus chapters have a bittersweet ending.
5. This is a work of fiction. Please don’t apply it to real life.
The prose is long and flowing, basically as shown on the label, with a slow pace and a lot of foreshadowing (the kind of very detailed foreshadowing). Like a painting, the characters are rich and full step by step.
The water flows slowly, which is quite beautiful.