[School life + sweet romance + two top students + from school days to the wedding aisle + secondary couple]
At seventeen, Shi Ran lost everything.
Her father died, her mother fell ill, and she tumbled from the clouds into the dirt, dragging her suitcase to a city completely foreign to her.
The Pei family’s villa was huge, the loquat tree was laden with fruit, and Auntie Lin’s smile was warm. But Shi Ran knew she was just an outsider living under someone else’s roof.
She set three rules for herself: Don’t cry. Don’t cause trouble. Don’t make anyone dislike me.
Pei Yanzhou was the most difficult person she had ever met.
He was cold, sharp-tongued, and uninterested in talking to people. On her very first day, he told her, “Don’t bother me.” Yet he was also the one who knocked on her door with a cup of warm milk when she woke from a nightmare in the middle of the night, who handed her his umbrella and ran off into the rain himself, and who left her a note in crooked handwriting: “Finish your milk and go to bed early. Don’t cry in the middle of the night.”
Shi Ran told herself not to read too much into it.
He only felt sorry for her. Nothing more.
But she didn’t know that from the day she moved into the Pei family’s home, every page in Pei Yanzhou’s diary had been filled with the same two words: Shi Ran.
That summer, she moved into his home.
Later, he moved into her heart.
