I'm Jiang Xu. I've been aloof for eighteen years: I never flame anyone while gaming, and I don't talk to people I know when I run into them. Everyone agrees I'm an “ice-cold hunk,” and I've kept that image rock solid!
Until, on the high-speed train, my unrequited love, Xu Nian, who rejected my confession in our first year of high school, suddenly took the seat beside me. She was still carrying the little bear charm I'd given her back then!
The air conditioning was too cold, so she scooted closer. The next moment, her soft head rested right on my shoulder, and even her breath smelled sweetly of oranges!
Help! I froze like a terracotta warrior. My ears were hot enough to fry an egg, and the little deer in my heart was stampeding into walls. My aloof image shattered even more thoroughly than a plate of edamame at a barbecue stall!
I thought our chance encounter would just be a mortifying disaster, but that evening, when I went out for skewers, her best friend dragged her to our table!
During Truth or Dare, someone pressed her about whether she liked anyone. I gripped my beer bottle and didn't dare say a word. Just as she was about to confess, her phone suddenly rang and interrupted the moment...
She pretended we were strangers, and I kept my feelings bottled up. Only that little bear, swinging back and forth, knew that the feelings I hadn't confessed three years ago had never expired.
Now that the college entrance exams are over, and we're about to go our separate ways, I'm done pretending to be aloof!
Who gets it? The aloof heartthrob kept his numb, stiff arm perfectly still, afraid to wake the girl of his dreams resting on his shoulder. Turns out every show of “not caring” was just an act put on for the whole world!
[Mutual Secret Crush + Mortifying Moments + Supporting Cast Comes to the Rescue + The Girl of His Dreams Loves Him Back]
