Summer Love [Secret Crush]

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[Her secret crush | He pursues his wife | White moonlight romance | Second male lead from Hong Kong’s elite circles | Female lead’s growth, clear-headed]

"Sensitive, clear-headed, introverted girl vs. gentle, cunning prodigy"

"I spent seven years making my way to you, and you asked if we were meeting for the first time."

At their alma mater’s centennial celebration, Lu Yiyan and Xu Nanyi’s names were printed side by side in the list of distinguished alumni.

Only then did Xu Nanyi discover that the high school classmate he’d barely known had attended the same university as him for two whole years.

“What a coincidence,” he said with a smile. “So I wasn’t alone at HKU all those years.”

It wasn’t a coincidence, Lu Yiyan thought. She had been following in his footsteps for seven whole years.

After the reunion, they began to grow closer, and Xu Nanyi gradually got to know this high school classmate he had once barely known or understood.

The feelings Lu Yiyan had kept buried for so long slowly began to rekindle. Now, she was braver than she had been in high school, and more able to face her feelings honestly.

Everything seemed to be going well.

Until one ordinary afternoon, he asked her to help him log into an account.

He handed her the username and password without a second thought.

A password hint appeared: 0518.

A date. Lu Yiyan knew it was the birthday of Song Enci, the white moonlight Xu Nanyi had admired and cherished in high school.

Lu Yiyan remembered it perfectly, because the cake he had carefully prepared for Song Enci that day had been delivered by a random classmate.

That classmate was Lu Yiyan.

The pain she had felt at seventeen, the passing of seven years, had never truly worn that thorn down.

All the affection she had rekindled went cold in an instant.

She could never accept the thorn that had been planted in her heart seven years ago and tormented her over and over.

On the night before she left town, beneath the hazy lights of a bar, Xu Nanyi was overcome with emotion and tried to kiss her.

She turned her head away. His kiss fell into the cold air.

“Yiyan...”

“I’m going to Beijing,” she said calmly.

He couldn’t understand why the heart that had been drawing closer suddenly seemed to retreat so far away...

Until Lu Yiyan’s best friend, Yu Xitian, took him to the library at their old high school.

In the school library, Xu Nanyi found the 2016 book-lending register.

Borrowed: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Xu Nanyi

After it was returned, one line later, the next borrower of the same book: Lu Yiyan

His heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly flipped through the pages, going forward and back.

Letter from an Unknown Woman, Xu Nanyi. Below it, Lu Yiyan.

The Stranger... Crime and Punishment... White Nights.

After his name appeared, hers would always show up soon after. Sometimes immediately after, sometimes carefully separated by a few other borrowers.

Like a cautious ritual, it had continued throughout all three years of high school.

The books he had read alone, the inner world he thought no one shared, had always had a quiet shadow behind him, following step by step and resonating with him.

She was the classmate Xu Nanyi had forgotten for seven years. Her name was Lu Yiyan, and she had loved Xu Nanyi for seven years.

Xu Nanyi closed the register.

Through the swirling dust, he seemed to see the silent girl in her school uniform, waiting for him to leave, then carefully taking the books he had read.

A long, quiet, wordless confession that had lasted seven years.

And when he finally wanted to begin, he realized he had unknowingly written the ending long ago.

Beijing was vast, and the wind was cold.

Xu Nanyi flew three thousand kilometers on a single ticket. When he found Lu Yiyan, he stood in front of her, with a thousand words jammed in his chest. In the end, he came back to those books. “Those books... did you read them all?”

Lu Yiyan looked up at him, her gaze clear and completely unguarded.

“I did.”

“But that was a long time ago. Books have a borrowing period, and so do people’s feelings.”

She turned and walked into Beijing’s surging crowds.

He stood rooted to the spot, clutching a plane ticket that had carried him three thousand kilometers.

And a belated, ill-fated stirring of the heart, seven years too late.

tips

1. Happy ending. The second male lead gets the girl. The second male lead is a virgin.

2. The female lead is a beauty with an elegant air. She didn’t dress up in school and was somewhat sensitive and insecure.

3. Please don’t criticize the female lead. She’s clear-headed and hardworking. Everyone has a youth, and the female lead grows little by little too.

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"Her secret crush + he pursues his wife, happy ending + reunion after years apart + unrequited love comes true. Plenty of steamy sweetness later on"

"Small-town romance. Both leads are pure in body and mind"

Sensitive, introverted girl x gentle, cunning man

①

After graduating, Ye Tong opened a bookstore on a small-town street.

On a stormy night, a man pushed open the door, rain soaking his refined features.

“Boss, do you have standard workbooks for first graders?”

“We do. Parents of students at Nanhuai School get a discount.”

The man showed her his verification in the parents’ group chat.

The moment she saw the name “Shang Xu,” Ye Tong looked up sharply.

The instant their eyes met, the hot milk tea in Ye Tong’s hand hit the floor with a bang.

The boy she had secretly loved for seven years was standing right in front of her, asking to buy first-grade books.

“You went to Nanhuai No. 1 High too? We’re alumni.” He picked up the cup for her.

She gripped her apron and solemnly delivered the words she had rehearsed countless times in her heart:

“My name is Ye Tong.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Shang Xu.” He smiled warmly.

After that, Shang Xu became a regular at the bookstore.

He worked in the corner, sometimes helped her organize the shelves, and even fixed the old fan in the shop.

They gradually grew close and had plenty to talk about.

Ye Tong thought this was a gift from fate, arriving late.

Until one day, during a bookstore event, she added him on WeChat.

Shang Xu’s Moments were full of a little girl’s smiling face: leaning on his shoulder, tugging his hair, and acting utterly close to him.

In the background of every photo was a beautiful woman.

The family looked inseparable.

Shang Xu often walked the little girl, Shang Kewei, to and from school every day.

Bitterness filled her heart. Her seven years of silent love had turned to nothing.

Ye Tong turned off her phone, her chest aching with heaviness.

She began to keep her distance. She stopped replying to his messages asking if she wanted a late-night snack, cut off contact, avoided him, and stopped checking anything about him.

Watching him walk “his daughter” to and from school outside the window, she tucked the profile sketch she had drawn for seven years into the bottom of the bookshelf.

“It’s time to end this,” she told herself.

②

His older sister was hospitalized.

Shang Xu volunteered to take on the responsibility of taking Shang Kewei to and from school.

Until one day, he met that interesting bookstore owner.

They could talk about anything, and Shang Xu fell deeply in love with this thoughtful, gentle girl.

But one day, the girl stopped replying to his messages and deliberately avoided every attempt he made to get close.

Shang Xu was tormented inside.

Until one day, he happened to find a portrait of his own profile in a corner of her desk.

At the bottom of the portrait, a line of writing blurred by tears was still clearly visible:

"The seventh year I loved you"

③

At a blind date arranged by her mother, Ye Tong forced a smile at a college classmate.

But the restaurant suddenly cleared out, and the manager bowed apologetically. “The owner would like to offer you a gift.”

Ye Tong was led to the second floor. It was beautifully decorated and completely empty, with only a warm light shining in the center.

Shang Xu sat in the middle, his gaze fixed on her.

“Long time no see, Ye Tong.”

“Would you do me the honor of skipping the blind date and officially getting together with me?”

Theme: Love yourself more