Lin Wan had liked Jiang Chi ever since the first day of high school.
She was the runner-up who always came second to him, his rival in every competition, and the shadow that always stood beside him on the awards podium. She thought the flutter of her heart, carefully hidden behind a telescope, would stay forever locked away in her diary.
Then, on the first day of university, the moment she got lost with her suitcase in tow, she stumbled straight into his arms. Like pieces on a chessboard, they met again from the start.
She thought it was just a chance encounter, only to discover that her roommate was his quirky little sister. What she had thought was a chance meeting in class turned out to be his carefully planned excuse to take a “minor.” He remembered all her habits: the sweetness she liked in her milk tea, the little gestures she made when nervous, even the dream she had written about in an old essay. His public plea for help on the basketball court, the secret left unspoken in the library, the confession cut short when the Ferris wheel broke down... Every step felt like he was patiently dismantling the walls she had built around her heart.
It turned out that the one-sided romance she had imagined had been mutual all along. The academic genius she thought was far beyond her reach had long seen her as his one and only exception and rival, keeping her name in his thoughts throughout three years of watching her.
From a shy, innocent schoolgirl's secret crush, to business partners growing side by side, to holding fast through a long-distance relationship across the north and south: this is a mutual pining that began with “frenemies,” a long confession of love from school uniforms to wedding dresses.
A love kept hidden will one day be found by the right person.
