[College campus + sweet romance with a touch of angst + reunion after years apart + humorous style + one-on-one romance]
A lot of college affairs begin with that damned game, Truth or Dare.
Su Nian, a small-town exam ace, is pressured into confessing to Cheng Yanshi, the “unapproachable campus heartthrob of Huaqing,” at a club dinner.
She expects to die of embarrassment.
But to her surprise, the cool, top student answers with a firm, “Yes”?
He had remembered the faint scar on her wrist all these years.
From the cicada-filled summers of Hucheng to the plane-tree-lined autumns of the capital.
Borrowing her his jacket, helping her with English, and publicly claiming her as his girlfriend during a debate competition: “She’s my girlfriend.”
They seem like a string of coincidences, but this reunion has been a long time in the making.
While Su Nian is still pretending to be his girlfriend to “pay him back for the clothes,” wondering “how long she has to keep this up,” Cheng Yanshi has already written “make the fake relationship real” into his plans:
“Why not pay me back over a lifetime?”
His tenderness has endured through the years. What you thought was a chance encounter was really just the perfect moment I’d been waiting for.
