[Sweet campus romance + fake dating contract + two top students + both inexperienced + love grows over time + long-planned romance + one-on-one + happy ending]
The day Su Nian got into Jincheng University on a scholarship, she met Fu Siheng.
She's a new student, sweet and obedient on the outside but stubborn at heart, and a top student. He's the aloof, distant heartthrob of the finance department and the heir to the Fu family.
They should have had nothing to do with each other.
Until Fu Siheng, trying to avoid his family's matchmaking arrangements, pushed a contract in front of her.
“Pretend to be my girlfriend for thirty days. You can change the terms.”
Su Nian added a clause: “Once the contract ends, so does our relationship. Neither of us can pester the other.”
He lowered his eyes and signed. “All right.”
But later, the hands they had joined in pretense never let go.
He memorized her class schedule and crossed half the city to pick her up on rainy nights. He complained that she was a bother, yet learned to cook for her. When someone confessed to her in public, the campus heartthrob Fu blushed for the first time.
Su Nian asked, “Fu Siheng, the contract has expired.”
“I know.”
“Then what are you still doing here?”
Under the lights in South Alley, he looked at her. “Before, it was a contract. Now, I want to pursue you.”
Only when Su Nian found a faded candy wrapper tucked into the lining of his wallet did she learn the truth...
Eight years ago, she had passed a piece of candy through the narrow window of an abandoned warehouse to a trapped boy, then run into the rain to call the police.
She had long since forgotten that candy.
But he had remembered it for eight whole years.
Their meeting wasn't a coincidence, and every perfectly timed appearance of his had been part of a long-laid plan.
Later, family status, their pasts, and an old case all come to light. She is no longer the girl afraid to believe in love, and he learns to let down his guard and weather every storm by her side.
From campus to the wedding dress, he finally writes the affection she'd waited eight years for into the rest of her life.
