Why Is My Childhood Friend Getting Greener?

Mutual pining | Childhood friends | Reunited after years apart | Ensemble cast | A little silly

(A passionate, underachieving student) A self-assured, scatterbrained girl x (Pretends to be sweet to hide his feelings) A secretly jealous childhood friend

What’s it like when your childhood friend, missing for years, suddenly shows up?

Su Jian wouldn’t know.

She didn’t recognize him at all.

First meeting.

Su Jian: He’s so handsome. How come I’ve never seen him before?

Song Xuyao: My wife didn’t recognize me. Sob.

Second meeting.

Su Jian: My hero! He even stood up for me in public!

Song Xuyao: My wife is being so polite to me. I’m so sad…

Third meeting.

Su Jian: “Wait. Are you my childhood friend who disappeared years ago???”

Song Xuyao: “…”

She was a little airhead with nerves thicker than guitar strings.

But she was where his heart first began to stir, so she would surely be where it ended, too.

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After going to great lengths to become friends with Su Jian again, Song Xuyao decided to confess.

“Su Jian, actually, I, ”

Before he could finish, Su Jian’s grandpa clapped a hand over his mouth.

Then came a stern warning: no confessing for the next three years of high school.

Song Xuyao: “…”

No problem.

It didn’t say he couldn’t pursue her, only that he couldn’t confess.

He decided to become a tea-green tea, greener than Longjing.

Inside the courtyard stands a lush jujube tree, planted by the two of us when we were little. Now it has seen its tenth spring.

Reader’s guide: 1. Mutual pining in the early chapters, childish bickering in the middle, then sweetness, sweetness, and more sweetness.

2. The male lead is secretly calculating at first; his green-tea side awakens in the middle.

3. There’s a second male lead, a love triangle, and friendship. This is a fairly long story.

Theme: I will no longer be trapped by the eyes of those who surround and condemn me