A Story About Not Speaking Your Mind | An International Student Story
Also known as: "Fellow International Students, Let's Huddle Up and Keep Each Other Warm, Handsome Guy from Home"
Bright, fiery sunshine 🌞 vs. a restrained, aloof little iceberg 🧊
(Though one is big and one is small, this is not a gender-bender romance!)
In her second year studying abroad, Kang Youqing's host family welcomed a new roommate: a handsome fellow Chinese student.
She wasted no time arranging activities to help him settle in, but he coolly rejected every social invitation.
Kang Youqing: "Far from home, nothing warms the heart like the Chinese student association. When fellow villagers meet, tears well up in both their eyes!"
He Yu's lips, radiating cold, moved as he said, "Sounds more like fellow villagers tricking each other until their eyes crinkle with laughter."
"Chinese people don't trick Chinese people!"
"Fine, I'll trust you this once!"
The first time he trusted her: At the freshman dance, she dragged him onto the floor in a dazzling entrance. That night, his stiff dance moves went viral on both the international and Chinese versions of TikTok, along with his stunning looks. From then on, sociable people approached him day and night, including gay men who harassed him.
The second time he trusted her: He helped make mooncakes for a Mid-Autumn Festival charity sale. A photo of him looking like a chef dad was printed on a huge poster, and he became the face of the mooncakes. They sold out in an instant, raising a huge sum for charity and making everyone happy. The only downside was that his internet blooper reel got another entry.
The third time he trusted her: ...
Surely by the third time, he would have learned his lesson and stopped blindly walking into her traps.
But He Yu watched as she expanded the reach of her cultural exchange activities farther and farther afield. Being a stranger in a strange land, in a country where you couldn't even say "gun" /gʌn/ without getting censored, he couldn't help worrying about her.
So he kept jumping into the traps she dug, time and again, silently protecting her.
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Kang Youqing realized that her warm enthusiasm had nearly melted the iceberg, but his mouth still seemed frozen for a thousand years.
She decided to warm it up with her own.
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Reader's Guide:
1. A story about not speaking your mind. Because of his family background, the male lead doesn't want to burden the female lead, so he leaves her in charge of how their relationship develops. That's why he keeps his mouth shut. The two lumps below his nose are just ornaments, reserved for the female lead to kiss. (He doesn't even need to eat. The little iceberg grew up by freezing, hahaha (≧∇≦*))
2. An international student story. The author isn't an international student for now, so the plot is entirely based on imagination. Please don't scrutinize it too closely.
3. This story is part of the "Daydreaming While Awake" series, in the "Youqing" collection. The dreamwalking girl group is still assembling. Visit the author's page to choose a few girls to collect and place your bets on~ Show your support for the dreamwalking girls~
Theme: The descendants of Yan and Huang should love one another.
