One More Year of Exam Prep, and My Childhood Friend Became the School Belle?

[Everyday romance, sweet love story, childhood friends, one heroine]

Su Suian has a little dream. He wants to go to Hangcheng University, and he wants to find someone...

They met at five and reunited at nineteen.

After repeating a year of high school, Su Suian finally got into Hangcheng University, where Su Yunxi was studying. Carrying the promise, “I’ll wait for you in Hangcheng,” he made his way from the five o’clock mornings at his prep school to the tree-lined avenue bathed in September sunshine.

After their reunion, the two childhood friends felt both familiar and strange to each other. He had grown quiet and withdrawn, while she had become even more dazzling. A promise at the library, a trip together to Lingyin Temple, a birthday surprise beneath the dormitory, and tentative overtures at a Halloween party: they edged carefully closer, yet neither dared to say those words first.

Until one snowy night by West Lake, Su Yunxi spoke before he could.

From campus to the working world, from holding hands to spending a lifetime together. They watched the clouds roll over Wugong Mountain, faced a life-or-death trial when they jumped into a river to save someone, and gave each other their complete trust and tenderness at their most vulnerable moments. Four years of sharing every day transformed their childhood friendship into the certainty of a lifelong partnership.

The year they graduated, Su Suian got down on one knee in a pavilion beside West Lake. A year later, Su Yunxi wore a red embroidered wedding gown as she married him.

“From the age of five to twenty-two, for seventeen years, you were the only view I ever wanted.”

This is a story about waiting and making your way to someone, about growing up and finding certainty. Not every pair of childhood friends makes it to the end, but Su Suian and Su Yunxi proved over seventeen years that the best kind of love is being together from school uniforms to a wedding dress,