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Zhu Youzi had always wished someone would love her without hesitation. So when Gu Jing shielded her from a soccer ball racing across the field, she found her lighthouse.
He was good at math, and she got tutoring from him. Throughout middle school, her world consisted of Gu Jing and studying. In high school, she got her wish and ended up in the same class as Gu Jing, quietly watching him from afar.
For three whole years.
At a game of truth or dare after graduation, she meant to confess her feelings. But one sentence, "There's someone I like," made her let go of her youthful fixation and go abroad to study with a friend. She poured all her frustration into her career and became a star reporter at the national broadcaster. She let go of her obsession and began a new romance and a new life.
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Gu Jing had always been a good student. The boldest thing he did in middle school was save a girl from a soccer ball.
After that, he kept running into her: at the water cooler, in line, at lunch... Then they became high school classmates, too.
In their first year of high school, people from another class started teasing Zhu Youzi about a rumored romance. Gu Jing cleared things up for her every time. When she struggled with her studies, he tutored her in math.
He paid more and more attention to Zhu Youzi and found himself drawn to her, but time and again, he denied his feelings. By the time he finally admitted them, all he heard was that Zhu Youzi had gone abroad with her boyfriend for further study. When they met again, Gu Jing learned that the person who had gone abroad with her back then was a girl from their high school. But now Zhu Youzi had someone to care for her, and he no longer had any right to say more. All he managed to blurt out was:
"Have you been well?"
But they had each built their own lives, and they never met again.
The first stirrings of young love began in high summer, and ended in high summer, too.
Theme: Those who love themselves will be loved by the whole world.
