Starlight Falling in the Evening Breeze

Name: Starlight Falling in the Evening Breeze
Author: Bean in a Bean Bun

星子落晚风

by Bean in a Bean Bun (豆中豆包)

Status: Completed
Length: 1.0M Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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One early autumn evening, Wen Wan was carrying her dance costume past the neighborhood park when the sound of an electronic keyboard beneath the wisteria trellis made her stop. Lu Xingci's fingers rose and fell over the keys, moonlight shining across his back. She was so captivated that she stumbled on the stone path and bumped into a cedar-scented embrace.

“Careful.” The boy's voice fell beside her ear. Wen Wan turned and met his apologetic eyes. The keys of his instrument had left dust on his fingertips, not yet fully wiped away.

It was their first meeting, yet it felt like a foreshadowing written long ago.

Later, outside the dance studio at Jin University, Lu Xingci often claimed he was there to look something up, then left her warm milk after listening to her practice. At the neighborhood bookshop, he always saved her a window seat and left orange candies there. Beneath the Ferris wheel, he fixed the wind-tousled strands of her hair, and the noise around them seemed to freeze.

Lu Xingci's thoughtfulness and Wen Wan's gentleness quietly carried their affection from one moment to the next. Even in a shortened version, the core events and their interactions and growing feelings should be conveyed in simple, concise language.

Lu Xingci always looked out for Wen Wan at gatherings, stepping in to take her drinks. Wen Wan, in turn, quietly cared for him when he stayed up late, bringing him hot porridge. In Jin University's music and dance practice rooms, on neighborhood benches and at the bookshop, and beneath the Ferris wheel on city streets, their feelings grew ever more tender. They both longed to bare their hearts on a night brimming with starlight.

When the maples at Jin University turned the whole avenue red, when the neighborhood strays began following them home, and when a light that belonged to them shone among the city's nighttime splendor, the flutter that began in early autumn was finally ready to catch the falling starlight in the gentle evening breeze.

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