Youthful days / Small-town story / Rekindled love / Growing pains
A stubborn cloud of a girl × a hot-tempered rogue with a heart of gold
If anyone called Yun Xiang and Lin Shuangwu childhood sweethearts,
they would both laugh in disdain.
The term was too sweet for what they had been through.
Until she was eighteen, Yun Xiang tried with all her might to fly away from this little town.
Lin Shuangwu kept her tethered to the ground, not to stop her, but because he was afraid she'd fall to her death.
The year her mother left, he repeatedly dragged her out of bars with a dark look on his face.
During her senior year of high school, he quietly scrimped and saved to support her for an entire year.
Everyone praised her for being exceptional, but Yun Xiang knew that the one with the worst temper was the one carrying the heaviest burden.
That humid summer,
with sweat-soaked skin and damp hands and lips,
she was the one who made the first move.
The boy was usually silent, but for once, he fell in love.
Then she left him behind and flew away on her own.
Yun Xiang stayed away for eight years. When she came back, he was Boss Lin.
At a gathering with his staff, her father insisted she come along.
One moment: "I'm not planning to see him."
The next, the call was already connected, her phone held to her lips.
"Hello. Who is this?"
"Long time no see. It's Yun Xiang."
There was a long silence on the other end, so long that everyone thought there was no chance.
Yun Xiang ignored it. "My dad wants you to come out for barbecue."
He swore, then hung up.
But when the man walked toward her, she almost didn't recognize him.
Dark-skinned, wearing a short-sleeved floral shirt, he looked like someone trading goods in Southeast Asia.
That night, in the old house, they shared a room.
The man's eyes were bloodshot. "You left so decisively back then. Why come back now?"
"There's something important I came back to find."
Lin Shuangwu looked at her coldly. "What?"
Yun Xiang smiled. "You."
Lin Shuangwu glanced up at her, then sneered. "Looking for me? In your dreams."
Yun Xiang moved closer, took his hand, and slid it under her clothes. "I don't just have good dreams, I'm more your type now, too. Want to find out?"
A few things to know:
1. Happy ending, realistic setting (I personally think it's a sweet romance...)
2. Almost there, almost ready to start posting!
3. I'll add more if I think of anything.
Theme: Love, love, love. Good thing we have love.
