(GL, Campus, Sweet Romance, Slow Burn, Subtle, Detail-Oriented, Mutual Devotion)
Warm, scheming Miss Gu × A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside little octopus
This is a story of two people choosing each other in the name of protection.
A gentle scheme that began with observation and ended in surrender.
I, Gu Xinyu, have always believed in precision and planning.
After transferring schools, I set my sights on a new target: my deskmate, Zhang Rongyu, the top student in our grade.
She was pale and quiet, like a flower deprived of sunlight. Only in the corners of her scratch paper did she draw tiny fish, swimming stubbornly across the page.
Later, I started a secret project.
Nutritional supplements delivered anonymously, scholarship information I “happened” to find on the competition forum, a secure position that just “happened” to open up at the university where my mother worked...
I calmly dismantled every thorn in her world, convinced I was conducting a flawless observation from a position of superiority.
Until she fainted in my arms during PE class. When she woke, her watery eyes looked up at me.
“Gu, your heart is beating so fast.”
Every precise calculation I had made collapsed in that moment.
It turns out that those who tear down walls will eventually make their home behind them.
It turns out I was the one being watched, the prey being tamed.
“The gentlest scheme is to plan everything for you, then leave the final say over my heartbeat in your hands.”
I planned every step, just so she could confidently write my name on the exam paper of her life.
A delicate coming-of-age story about protection, its consequences, and two people losing themselves in each other.
High school is only the prologue. Our story is far from over...
