[Icy childhood sweetheart × girl devoted to intangible cultural heritage | Making an iceberg smile + protecting heritage with technology]
This novel is an entry in Tomato's Fifth Online Literature Contest. It focuses on passing down intangible cultural heritage and sweet campus romance, with two people choosing each other and technology giving tradition a boost. Stay tuned!
Everyone at school knew Shen Xingze was an iceberg no one could warm: cold-faced, taciturn, and unapproachable. Except that he always melted for Xia Xiaotang!
She'd stuck to him for over a decade, with one clear goal in life: make the iceberg smile from the heart! She'd poke his cheeks and tickle him, chatter endlessly about fun facts on intangible cultural heritage, and lean close to tease him while revising a kesi embroidery design: “Xingze, give me a smile, or the embroidery threads will get all tangled up~” Whenever she got into trouble, she hid behind him, yet somehow always managed to melt his icy exterior.
The programming genius showed his gentle side to no one but her:
When she stayed up late revising heritage designs and got sleepy, he brought her warm milk, the corners of his mouth secretly lifting. When she struggled with the star-entwined lotus pattern, he used code to draw a diagram and even made a funny face to cheer her up. When she wanted to digitize intangible cultural heritage, he built the technical framework for her: “Go ahead and give it a try. I've got your back, and I'll get to see how you make me smile.”
A lost original sketch of the “Star-Entwined Lotus” pattern brought with it the weight of preserving the tradition, and a sudden threat appeared at their door! He protected her and announced with a smile, “I haven't finished my mission to make you smile. I'll protect your dream of preserving this heritage, so you just keep being sweet.”
One-on-one, both untouched, no angst, from school uniforms to wedding dresses! With youthful passion and the power of technology, they breathe new life into intangible cultural heritage. This sweet romance is full of cultural warmth. It turns out the iceberg's genuine smile had long been reserved exclusively for the girl devoted to heritage~
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