Chen Yugui has been secretly in love with Xue Yetong for seventeen years. From kindergarten through high school, he hid his feelings in the song “Simple Love” he sang at karaoke, in the song “Rainy Day” he shared on social media, and in his determination to have the same birthday as her.
By a twist of fate, he moves into her home. He thinks the companionship he has dreamed of is the beginning of happiness. He helps her catch up in science, remembers how particular she is about cleanliness, and brings her candied hawthorn skewers when she is sad, giving her all the tenderness he has. But a sudden misunderstanding over a love letter makes her blurt out, “Move out,” shattering all his heartfelt devotion.
He leaves dejectedly with a teddy bear hiding twelve little stars, building a wall with his haughty pride. Yet late at night, he keeps running his fingers over the words on the stars: “Chen Yugui, in my heart, you will always be better than anyone else.”
Only when Xue Yetong figures out the secret behind “Rainy Day = XYT” does she understand that every coincidence was the result of his decade-long devotion.
This time, she lets go of her pride and searches street after street beneath the blazing sun. With a heart full of regret and courage, she runs toward the boy she once pushed away. “Chen Yugui, you took the first ninety-nine steps toward me. Let me take the last one toward you, okay?”
A secret love shared both ways spans seventeen years, from “the feelings he kept hidden” to “her brave pursuit.” It turns out the best kind of love is when you still find me waiting for you when I fall for you.
This is not a story about "getting", but a precise surveying and mapping that lasted for seventeen years - Chen Yugui used his entire boyhood as a ruler to measure the trajectory of the galaxy named Xue Yetong. From kindergarten to high school, his love was the hesitation of "Simple Love" in KTV, the Morse code of "Rainy Day" in the circle of friends, and the obstinate ritual that turned the overlapping birthdays of two people into fate. When "coincidences" become so dense that they become astronomical phenomena, behind them is often a star map drawn with painstaking efforts by someone. The author's most cruel and gentle writing style is to blend extreme romance and extreme pain. Living together under the same roof day and night was like honey and Lingchi - he remembered all her mysophobia and fragility, compiled her science notes into love letters, and used candied haws to string together her every cloudy day. But the "misunderstanding of love letters" was like an unexpected cold wave, and the three words "move out" condensed all the unresolved mornings and evenings. The little bear hiding twelve stars became the only stardust in his defeated universe. It wasn't until Xue Yetong deciphered the code of "XYT=Rainy Day" that those coincidences that had been worn out by the years suddenly emerged. It turns out that the longest secret love is not to watch a lonely planet, but to live in an orbit around her, calibrating her frequency with every breath. When the starlight finally reaches the looking eyes, we understand: some love has completed its most complete journey long before it arrives.
It's a pretty good campus romance novel. She hides the person she likes and lives together to study for homework by chance. Later, she discovers his feelings and starts pursuing him. The first 99 steps were for you to come to me, and the last step for me to come to you. It turns out that the best love is when I like you and you are still waiting for me. It's a pretty good love novel. Love is meeting the right you at the right time.
This book is really good. The author's writing is exquisite, the plot has ups and downs, the characters are vivid, and the dialogue is smooth. It is worth recommending!
The sweet campus novel and the delicate writing style allow people to follow the protagonist's joy, anger, sorrow, and youthful secret love. In the author's writing, it seems to have returned to the period of youth and frivolity.