Not My Jingnian

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Yang Zhifei × Xue Xiaojing

*Beijing elite-circle romance / childhood friends / sweet-and-sour push and pull / rekindled romance / friends with benefits to lovers

*After becoming secret lovers with her high-profile childhood friend

It began on a Friday night in a hotel penthouse.

Yang Zhifei loosened his collar and glanced at Xue Xiaojing as she bent to take off her canvas shoes.

A friend teased him over the phone, “How come Xiaojing keeps disappearing at the same time as you lately?”

He bent down, took her ankle in his hand, and tugged at the corner of his mouth.

“What a coincidence.”

Xue Xiaojing kicked him, but never dared make a sound.

-

In everyone’s eyes, Xue Xiaojing and Yang Zhifei were complete opposites.

One was as wild as tough grass, a bright, blazing little sun.

The other was an arrogant young master perched above the clouds, the most prominent figure in their circle.

No one would ever think to link the two of them.

No one knew that every Friday, she would secretly climb into his sports car, waiting around the corner by the school gate.

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Their relationship ended in the summer of their sophomore year, when she summoned all her courage to call it off on her own.

One day, Xue Xiaojing ran into him in the library.

His bespoke suit hung over the back of a chair, and her notes from the previous year lay open in front of him. His lowered lashes concealed every hint of emotion. The plane-tree leaves fell outside, and he sat facing that stack of old pages until the library closed.

The once carefree, unflappable darling of the heavens stared blankly out the window.

As if waiting for a Friday that would never come again.

His repeated appearances were too much of a coincidence. At last, she couldn’t hold back. “What exactly are you trying to do?”

For once, disarray showed in his eyes. Stripped of all his usual poise and arrogance, he said hoarsely, “I want you to come back and keep sleeping with me.”

Cool and controlling × lively and defiant

A shameless flirt with irresistible charm × timid but tough

*A hunt and counterhunt that begins with the body and ends with the soul.

*One-on-one | Both inexperienced | Happy ending

*Includes a groveling ex who tries to win her back

“Years have passed, yet I am not the same; I am not the same, though the years have passed.”

The proud man bows his head for love, and time bears witness.

Theme: Study hard and live well.