Winter Is the Perfect Time to Share Sweets

Years in the making | Reunion after a long separation | He has a secret crush | Slow burn

"Food blogger x inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine"

"Flirts without realizing it x overthinks himself into falling in love"

Years after graduation, Jiang Ya unexpectedly reunites with her high school classmate Shen Xusui, and they become neighbors.

He's cool and aloof, refined and self-possessed, always keeping his words measured. He's exactly as she remembers him from the distant view she had of him beneath the assembly platform back in high school.

To get what she wants, she goes out of her way to win him over.

She invites him over for dinner. "Thank you, but you really didn't have to go to all that trouble."

She offers to pay for a consultation. "It's all right. It's no trouble at all."

Faced with Shen Xusui's polite distance, Jiang Ya can't figure him out at all.

One day, she finally works up the courage. "Doctor Shen, could I ask you to..."

Shen Xusui sits up straight and composes himself, then answers solemnly, "I will."

Jiang Ya: ? She hasn't even said what she wants yet.

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In Shen Xusui's eyes, Jiang Ya is clearly treating him differently:

1. She invites him over for dinner: She likes me and wants me to meet her parents.

2. She asks about his work: She's concerned about my finances and wants to know if I can provide for her.

3. She brings him medicinal dishes: She cares about my health and is figuring out if I can make her happy.

4. She asks him to appear in a video with her: She's come around and wants to make our relationship official.

[Bonus Scene]

After they get together, Shen Xusui turns into a clingy sweetheart, constantly pestering Jiang Ya.

"I hate being apart from you, baby."

Jiang Ya tears herself away from his heated kiss. "Wait. First, explain what all this is about."

Her student ID, which went missing in high school, the draft paper covered in writing, the workbook of mistakes she'd filled out...

He pulls her into his arms, his cool nose brushing and rubbing against hers, and confesses frankly:

"Isn't it obvious? It's because I like you, of course, baby."

[Reader's Guide]

* The descriptions of medicinal knowledge are based on online searches. Please don't take them as professional advice.

* One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending.

Theme: Those who never forget will eventually be answered.