Racing Across the Sea of Stars

[First love is faithful, but things get messy in the middle + wayward man turns over a new leaf + playboy x sweet girl + from school days to the city]

Lin Wanxing looked at the address he’d sent her and decided to surprise Jiang Chi. Seated at the next booth, she heard his friends tease him: “Jiang’s always gone for flashy girls who like to have fun and know how to play. That singer onstage is just his type. Isn’t this good-student girl a little too well-behaved for him?”

Lin Wanxing tensed. She heard Jiang Chi say, sounding tipsy and nonchalant, “Yeah, she’s too well-behaved. She can’t keep up.”

Lin Wanxing didn’t dare listen any longer. She ran away.

They broke up on a rainy night. Lin Wanxing ended the love that had taken their youth by storm with a single word: “I’m bored.” And just like that, their promise was over.

When they met again seven years later, neither was still rushing headlong into love as before. Unsure of where things stood, they fell into each other’s orbit again, pushing and pulling as mature adults tested each other’s feelings.