A Little Regret in Three Words

三个字的小遗憾

by Cat Er Tea Fish (猫洱茶鱼)

Status: Completed
Length: 80k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
Updated: 3mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

A sensitive, overthinking girl versus a sunny, oblivious boy

When Shen Xiaoxu is sixteen, she happens to catch sight of Lu Qingyang, who had been about to head home despite the rain, suddenly slowing down. He gently crouches to feed a kitten soaked through by the downpour.

Though his shoulders are already drenched, he casually glances up a few times, seemingly not bothered at all.

What an utterly hopeless idiot!

Watching from the side, Shen Xiaoxu can’t help whispering under her breath. But even so, seeing him like this, she quickens her pace and silently holds her umbrella over him.

If “fate” is something very, very small, then I think it’s a chance encounter beneath an umbrella. It’s just a pity that I may not even be worthy of making him like me. So this is what it feels like to fall for someone: the first thing you feel is “inferiority.”

I think, “I was lucky enough to meet you before anyone else, but sadly, I fell in love with you a step too late.”

Perhaps because my “feelings” for him lasted neither too long nor too briefly, our story was neither too long nor too brief, either. In the end, all that remained was a small regret, summed up in just three words.

This was the seemingly perfect answer Shen Xiaoxu, now twenty-six, gave in an interview with a reporter.

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