Burning Up with Fever

Zhao You has never been able to adapt to the rules of this world. Wherever she goes, she’s the worst at wearing a mask. She’s unremarkable and awkward, sensitive inside, weighed down by a deathly gloom, and nothing like a mature adult.

Her inner world is rich, but she isn’t good at socializing. Her features are beautiful, yet there’s nothing about her that stands out.

One day, she runs into Yang Chi, the transfer student from her high school days, and remembers the fever that came over her during those humid summers.

That fever made her forget a lot of things.

It turns out she forgot Yang Chi.

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Life is gentle yet cruel to her, and cold and utilitarian to him.

He’s used to being surrounded by people who want something from him. She alone was kind to him on a whim when they were young, then stepped away without expecting anything in return.

She is an unknown variable.

He thinks she’s “strange.”

Yet this “strangeness” took root in his heart during his youth, growing into an unshakable secret love.

Many years later, he’s back in his lofty stronghold, numb and ruthless as he calculates his gains, when he encounters this “unknown variable” again. She has long since forgotten him, yet still offers her clumsy “kindness” with that gloomy air of hers. It’s as if, despite standing before her with all his immense wealth, he’s still a pitiful beggar.

But this time, Yang Chi will repay her kindness tenfold, a hundredfold, and let her experience what it’s like to be stuffed full of strange, almost smothering “kindness.”

And then...

Zhao You: He seems to like me. Well, maybe I’ll try flirting with him?

*Healing, mutual affection, with the heroine taking the lead later on

*Sensitive, awkward, gloomy heroine Zhao You x cold, hollow, profit-driven male lead Yang Chi, who becomes human when he meets her

*In short: gloomy, pathetic heroine x aloof, lofty male lead who falls from grace for love

*In plain language: ordinary heroine vs. a male lead from a different world

*Subtle romantic tension between two low-key people

*Literary, slow burn

Theme: Someone will come along to save you.