Bitter Jasmine and the Arid Land

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A bitterly cold winter at the turn of the millennium.

When Ji Chunyu was eight, Cheng Moyan moved into the alleys of Nancheng.

The kids were curious about Cheng Moyan, and the difficult task of gathering information naturally fell to the alley's ringleader, Ji Chunyu.

One day, Ji Chunyu accidentally climbed into the flowerbeds in Cheng Moyan's backyard. She poked her head out and came face-to-face with Cheng Moyan, who was crying so hard her face was a mess.

Cheng Moyan was so embarrassed that she stopped crying. Then she saw the girl across from her extend a finger, gently catch one of her tears, and pop it into her mouth.

Ji Chunyu: "You're bitter."

Cheng Moyan: "...?"

Ji Chunyu was like a little sun. One reason she was the kids' ringleader was that she knew all her friends' birthdays and what they liked. But she had no idea what the newcomer, Cheng Moyan, liked.

Cheng Moyan belonged to a completely different world from theirs. Whenever they passed her house, all they could hear was piano music, or Cheng Moyan sobbing in the backyard.

Ji Chunyu thought Cheng Moyan was in trouble. Like a knight, she rushed to her rescue, only to make a huge blunder.

It turned out that the person punishing Cheng Moyan wasn't her mother.

Over time, Cheng Moyan became friends with the other kids thanks to Ji Chunyu, and for the next ten years, their laughter filled the alley.

Cheng Moyan matured earlier than the other kids, and grew increasingly sensitive. When anything involved Ji Chunyu, she could become especially extreme and possessive.

Over the course of ten years, at an age when they barely understood their feelings, they tried kissing and hugging, held hands in a classroom during a power outage, whispered about the feelings of youth under the covers in the dark, and talked about their dreams together in class.

Cheng Moyan thought she could keep things this way with Ji Chunyu for the rest of her life.

She was like a thief stealing happiness, while there were so many people around Ji Chunyu. Her possessiveness finally made her obsession erupt.

For the first time, Ji Chunyu looked at her with disappointment.

"Cheng Moyan, what have you become?"

Cheng Moyan fled in a panic. She had dug up her own dark, sordid heart and laid it bare before Ji Chunyu.

Ji Chunyu herself had stripped away the gentle mask Cheng Moyan wore.

Four years later.

Ji Chunyu cornered Cheng Moyan in a theater and said nothing.

The woman before her was as cold as the winter when they first met.

"What is it? Don't know me again?"

There are three essentials to growing a jasmine plant: planting it in spring, giving it plenty of sunshine, and love.

1. Both are each other's first love. Told from the bottom's perspective. Neither has a perfect character. Reconciliation after a breakup. The secondary couples will only get a brief mention.

2. A former knight, sickly little-sun younger woman who becomes a possessive, devoted puppy x a former gentle, sensitive older woman who becomes cold and hypocritical.

The blurb was screenshotted and archived on 2026-05-26.

Theme: Love can overcome anything.