Shen Yanqing has been single for nineteen years and has no interest in romance, until he finds a red string on the stone steps of Jingci Temple.
A few days later, his father calls. "Go win Gu Xingzhou over." At the time, Shen Yanqing is staring at a photo of the freshman representative on an online forum. The boy's cool, refined features overlap with the flutter in his heart brought on by the red string. The other words are swallowed by a jumble of thoughts. All he hears are three words: win him over.
Win him over? That means pursue him, right?
Shen Yanqing thinks he's making his feelings obvious all on his own: borrowing notes, bringing coffee, "accidentally" breaking Gu Xingzhou's phone and replacing it with a matching couple's model, and asking him to go to an amusement park. Every step carefully planned.
But he doesn't know that Gu Xingzhou claimed "the empty seat beside him" on the very first day of school.
He thinks he spent a year pursuing Gu Xingzhou.
In truth, Gu Xingzhou spent the whole year waiting for him.
The obvious pursuer x the secretly waiting heartthrob
You think you're the one pursuing me?
No. From the moment you picked up that red string,
it was a script I'd already written.
Theme: Love isn't a coincidence born of chance. It's one person's quiet, patient waiting, and another person's wholehearted pursuit.
