[Tags: First loves on both sides + Years of plotting + Sly and calculating love interest + Sweet, adorable girl]
Shen Yansi’s parents forget his thirteenth birthday. Sitting on a park bench with a cake in his arms, he cries until Jiang Sui, who has just started sixth grade, gives him an orange candy. Her dimples are so sweet that he remembers them for six whole years.
He searches for her for six years without a trace. Then, the summer before his freshman year of college, he helps his good friend Lin Yi tidy up a room at his house and spots a photo of a girl. Seeing those familiar dimples, Shen Yansi swallows hard three times. The girl he’s been searching for all these years has come right to him!
During her senior year of high school, Jiang Sui feels as if someone cherishes her above all else. She struggles with certain subjects, so he drops by his cousin’s house to tutor her. When they’re done, he hands her an orange candy, his fingertips warmer than the candy itself.
She’s afraid of the dark and doesn’t dare walk through the alley after evening study sessions, so a figure in a black T-shirt is always waiting at its entrance. She’s overwhelmed by the college application booklet, so he clearly marks the programs at his own university, even listing which cafeteria stall serves sweet-and-sour pork without gristle. She thinks he’s only looking after his cousin’s younger relative out of respect for his cousin, until she arrives at the same university with her acceptance letter.
That day, the young man takes her hand. In his palm lies a crumpled orange candy: the one he couldn’t bring himself to eat all those years ago, and kept hidden away.
“The candy you gave me back then, I’ve kept it for seven years. Now I want to trade a lifetime’s supply of orange candy for the chance to be your boyfriend. What do you say?”
Only then does Jiang Sui realize that this guy has been plotting since she was thirteen to trick her into coming home as his little bride.
Very youthful! It's very interesting. I beg the author to update it soon! I hope I can write more about college content! 🥰