Secret Crush: My Heart Belongs to You

“If the finish line feels too far away, I’ll turn my secret crush into motivation, even if chasing him feels like torturing myself.”

During their three years of middle school, Lin Xi was a furtive listener lurking in the shadows. To catch up with Zhou Chen, the spirited boy who always seemed to shine, she pushed herself to the brink of madness.

She went from scoring 658 to an astonishing 716 on the high school entrance exam. After crossing a fifty-point chasm, she finally stood beside him beneath the blazing August sun, admitted to the same top high school.

She thought it was nothing more than a one-sided pursuit: he was on the north side of the second floor, she was on the south, with a dense canopy of plane trees and an unfathomable distance between them.

Until, on the first day of school, she found the freshman handbook Zhou Chen had lost.

When long-buried secrets came to light, Lin Xi finally realized:

The boy who laughed and bragged at the end of the hallway had written the same words on the covers of every one of his notebooks: “By the green collar, my heart is ever drawn to you, **”