A Spark of Love

[Mutual pining, reunion after years apart]

[Sweet, gentle, and resilient interpreter vs. cool, refined heir]

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Fu Rou's secret crush was the “hello” she never said during three years of high school, and the name she wanted to write in her diary countless times but never dared to.

By chance, she was invited to accompany her roommate to meet some high school classmates. There, she discovered that the boy in her memories had enrolled at the university next door to hers.

Maybe it was the way he instinctively protected her in an escape room, walking side by side across campus after the rain, sharing their deepest thoughts in a small town in Jiangcheng, or the unspoken understanding when he asked her out after coming to her rescue. Whatever it was, she thought the seeds of her crush were finally beginning to sprout.

But before she could even warm up to the thought of confessing, Wen Yan left for another country.

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Six years later, they unexpectedly met again. When she heard what he wanted, Fu Rou mustered her courage this time. And with her grandmother's wishes weighing on her, the two impulsively entered a marriage that was both absurd and heart-fluttering.

After they married, his thoughtfulness warmed her heart like gentle water. She thought the happiness she'd waited so long for had finally come, only to find a faded photograph tucked inside one of his old books. It was a picture of her at eighteen, hidden away by him for eight whole years.

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Wen Yan never imagined that in the darkest days of his life, a clear umbrella handed to him by a convenience store owner, a taro milkshake, and a dusty journal would become his salvation.

The girl's grades and inspirational quotes in the journal helped him make it through the gloom.

He searched for her for so long. Only when they met again did he understand: from the moment raindrops fell from the tip of that umbrella, he had already carved this girl into the rest of his life.