For four years, Shen Zhiyu treated Lu Xubai as her sworn enemy. He always beat her to first place, kept her in his shadow, and opposed her at every turn. Then, one night at their graduation dinner, things got out of hand, and she fled in a panic. A little over a month later, two red lines appeared on her pregnancy test at the hospital, and her life fell apart.
She walked into the operating room alone, but he rushed in with red-rimmed eyes and dragged her out. "Shen Zhiyu, what gives you the right to make this decision by yourself?"
Under the fluorescent lights in the corridor, four years of unrequited love slowly came to light. Only then did she learn that every clash had been a boy's clumsy attempt to get closer, and every time he outscored her had been driven by the fear that she would forget him. From rivals to marriage, from resistance to surrender, this love that had taken four years to find its way to each other finally reached the words they'd been waiting for:
"I'll give you my whole life in exchange for hearing you say, 'I do.'"
Long-form sweet-and-angsty romance | Rivals-to-lovers, secret crush comes true | He chases her after she leaves | Marriage first, love later
