Pick Your Childhood Sweetheart, or I'll Kiss You Until You Cry

[He has a secret crush, childhood friends, bickering sweethearts, both each other’s first and only love]

[Goofy, quirky girl x scheming, taciturn, jealous boy]

In everyone’s eyes, Xu Yichuan was aloof, brilliant at school, and unbelievably handsome.

He never had any girls around him.

Someone secretly kept an eye on him.

They saw Xu Yichuan walking home from school with a girl.

The girl even teased him.

“So you’re putting on a cold and aloof act now?”

Xu Yichuan gave a chilly smile.

“Pei Yang, you talk so much. You think you can pull off being aloof?”

After that, everyone found out.

The girl was named Pei Yang, and she was Xu Yichuan’s childhood friend.

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Later on.

Everyone watched Xu Yichuan pick the scallions out of Pei Yang’s noodles, retrieve her novel from their teacher, tutor her…

This wasn’t just childhood friendship.

It was obviously deep, devoted love!

They just hadn’t admitted it yet.

Then some clueless boy confessed to Pei Yang.

Everyone looked at Xu Yichuan, but the boy didn’t react at all.

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But on a crowded bus.

Xu Yichuan shielded her from the crowd, pinning her into a corner by the window. His voice dropped low.

“He confessed to you, and you still smiled at him?”

Pei Yang sensed danger, but instinctively lifted her chin and shot back,

“My mouth is on my face. Are you going to tell me whether I can smile?”

Xu Yichuan rested his hand on her waist. Even through her school uniform, it was scorching hot.

His voice was thick with possessiveness.

“What if I insist on telling you?”

Pei Yang quickly turned around and saw his burning gaze fixed on her lips.

As if he wanted to bite her into submission.

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[Some feelings, it turned out, had taken root in the summer long ago.]