Love on a Blank Page

[Clearheaded, Kindhearted, Healing Angel vs. Slow-to-Warm, Sensitive Puppy]

[Long-Planned Love | He Secretly Loves Her | Healing and Redemption]

On the day the college entrance exams ended, her social media feed filled with relationship announcements. Shi Yuan, who had been single for eighteen years, decided she wanted to date.

She put up a post on the confession wall looking for someone, never expecting anyone to actually contact her.

Chen Zui had never dated before. He was as awkward as a penguin.

Awkward attempts to test the waters, shy approaches, and a careful, tentative crush.

The first time they got close.

Their first hug.

Their first kiss.

The first time she wanted so badly to love someone.

When Shi Yuan got drunk, she began reciting Li Qingzhao's “Like a Dream.”

“I often remember the pavilion by the stream at dusk, so lost in drink I knew not the way home. The fun over, we rowed back late, straying into the depths of lotus blossoms…”

Drunkenly, Shi Yuan mumbled, “Chen Zui, you are the depths of the lotus blossoms to me.”

“Shi Yuan, then you are the flock of egrets.”

“What do you mean?”

“You always stir ripples in my heart.”

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A note from the author: A blank sheet of paper belongs with another blank sheet.

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