- High school and college / unrequited love / both leads' first relationship / sweet romance
One-sided hearing loss, autistic academic ace x timid, earnest, and resilient girl
Meng Zhiyao's wish at eighteen: to leave this city and go somewhere no one knows her. Song Xinlan quietly remembers her words and keeps his secret crush to himself.
By a twist of fate, Meng Zhiyao is unable to return to her senior year of high school and resume her studies because of a long-term mental health condition.
Her family arranges for Song Xinlan to tutor her, but who knew he was such a timid patient himself?!
- "Can you sit on my left today? I forgot my hearing aid."
- "So every time I called you, you... I'm sorry!"
After that, Meng Zhiyao starts working hard. What she never expected was that Song Xinlan would change because of her, too.
Sunlight falls on her. Song Xinlan can't hold back his growing feelings. His diary flips open in the breeze, and she slowly wakes. Seeing Song Xinlan with his ears flushed red, she immediately pounces on him.
"Give it back!" Meng Zhiyao deliberately lowers her voice, but her eyes turn red.
Song Xinlan's roommates stare at them in disbelief. After all, so many people have confessed to him, only to be rejected time and again.
Even so, he leans close to her right ear. "I'll take you somewhere."
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Song Xinlan has always kept to himself, absorbed in composing music. After he tells her about his dream, he changes his request to: "Could you help me record a sample?"
Meng Zhiyao glances back at his face, feeling something restrained and unspoken stir in her heart: That clueless senior is seriously so cute!
She picks up the guitar in the recording studio.
So focused on playing and singing, she doesn't notice that his eyes are not only following her, but also lighting up with sparks.
"Where do you want to go in the future?" Song Xinlan asks. His habitual nervousness makes him unconsciously grip his jacket, wrinkling it in his hands.
"Lincheng. What about you? What city is your graduate school in?"
Their eyes meet. He breathes a sigh of relief and tries to hide his pounding heart with a joking tone. "Lincheng, too."
"So... you have to work hard and come to the same city as me."
Song Xinlan holds out his cool pinky, trembling slightly. Meng Zhiyao's heart flutters as she links hers with it. Without her realizing it, she warms him.
She dreams of him, though he seems far away. Yet she is there in person, and his letter of trust has already arrived.
Reader's Guide:
1. 30,000 words per month. No physical intimacy or romance during high school.
2. An uplifting, healing story with a happy ending. No real-life inspirations.
Theme: Look into the eyes of the one you love.
Made me laugh so hard. I've been watching too many videos recently and thought that behind the OS I really wanted to see a violent woman wearing a skirt.
After reading it, does the author really give you a monthly subscription? Can't make money 😩