The Melancholy High School Boy

[Melancholy, innocent, edgy older brother x sweet, soft-spoken top student | Dog x rabbit | Couple's daily life]

The hashtag #HighSchoolCouples was trending online.

Fang Manjia's best friend wanted to set her up with someone.

The guy was her classmate: Long Zhiyuan.

His profile picture showed a silver-haired handsome man holding a cross against a gray background. The dark atmosphere made the small portion of his face that was visible look deathly pale, almost inhuman, and a glint of coldness shone in his single visible eye.

His real hair was jet black, long enough to constantly challenge school rules. He rarely showed his eyes, and even an ordinary glance felt like an intense stare. A ring resembling a piece of armor completely covered one of his knuckles.

He always seemed to have a vintage filter over him, and his social media captions were always gloomy.

Her best friend said he was handsome, tall, and from a good family…

But she barely knew him!

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Early in their relationship, they often forgot the other person even existed.

After dinner, they would leave the restaurant and go straight home.

At school, they didn't even make eye contact.

Fang Manjia was egged on by her best friend to go watch Long Zhiyuan play basketball, but she went to the wrong court.

Seeing Fang Manjia out in the rain without an umbrella, Long Zhiyuan was glad he'd brought one. Otherwise, her clothes would have gotten soaked and clung to her body, which would have been so uncomfortable.

After walking a mile, he stopped in the rain and suddenly realized: Oh, the unlucky person about to get soaked is my girlfriend.

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How to enjoy this story:

1. Set in the final year of high school. Both characters are adults.

2. The gloomy guy is either genuinely depressed or pretending. The male lead is the latter.

3. A sweet little romance with some comedy and melodrama.

4. The heroine finds salvation.

5. The male lead gets extremely possessive later on, with plenty of male rivalry.

Theme: Cherish your youth