[Mutual Secret Crush + Reunion After Years Apart + Top Student x Editor]
Ruan Yumian has had a crush on Shen Jun for six years. During their three years of high school, he sat behind her, and she thought he hated her because every time she turned around, he would coldly avert his gaze.
She didn't know he had read every essay in her workbook, penciling a note beside each one: "She's in a bad mood today. How can I cheer her up?"
She didn't know that in his sophomore year of college, he moved to Nancheng and rented a small place far from campus simply because it was close to her.
She didn't know that his phone notes contained a line: "She wrote in her essay that waiting itself makes you believe good things will eventually arrive. So I'll wait."
An accident leads her to open the door to his home, and they both pretend not to know each other.
Until one late night, she stands beneath his building and calls the number she's kept for six years but never once dialed:
"Shen Jun, did you really hate me in high school?"
He stands under the streetlight for a long time. Then he says, "I thought you hated me."
Only then do they realize that some misunderstandings have been hiding between them for all these years.
