I Call You a Friend, but I'm Secretly in Love with You

[A secret crush ending in heartbreak + beautiful tragedy + lightly ensemble-cast + two people who keep missing each other]

[Cool, beautiful girl Xu Chuhe]

[Sunny boy Ruan Xingchi]

“Ruan Xingchi, please forgive me for loving you for so many years under the guise of friendship.”

At twelve, Xu Chuhe fell in love with the person she disliked most: Ruan Xingchi.

The tragedy was that, in the boy's heart, she would always be just a good friend.

Ruan Xingchi had helped her break the chains fate had placed on her and escape one cage after another.

He took her to see the vast rivers of stars on every midsummer night, and helped her find the freedom she'd lost for so long.

In front of him, she could always be herself.

At twelve, Ruan Xingchi loved sitting beneath the willow tree by the entrance to their residential compound, gazing at the stars. He would insist that she make a wish, too. The first wish Xu Chuhe made to the gods was that she and Ruan Xingchi would never part.

They parted in the height of summer when they were seventeen. When they met again, she watched the boy she'd once loved walk toward his bride in a suit.

In the end, she attended his wedding as a friend.

It turned out that the ending of a secret crush was a grand, heartbreaking missed connection.

Ruan Xingchi never knew that Xu Chuhe had spent her entire youth loving him.

In this silent yet overwhelming youth of loving him under the guise of friendship, it was, for her, just one more regret from the past.

[The third little story about a secret crush at Experimental No. 1 High School. Please show it lots of support qwq]

New book, the rating will go up soon~