Magic Star

Jin Huan had always been the oddball in everyone’s eyes.

She always started exams with the last question, slept with her head at the foot of the bed, and never read page seven of a book.

Though she took “standing out from the crowd” as her life’s motto, at sixteen she did something utterly ordinary: she fell for Pei Yi'an.

He was a rising star on the national archery team, a regular on the school honor roll, a gifted young man with a bright future.

For some reason, Jin Huan kept running into him in the most unexpected places:

She got stuck straddling the top of a wall while climbing over it, and he was standing below, watching her.

When she cried her eyes out during a dental filling, he was in the next chair.

Her so-called crush seemed to have become the bane of her existence, witnessing every embarrassing moment.

Months later, Jin Huan looked back on these mortifying memories, blushing with frustration. “Why do I always embarrass myself in front of you?”

The boy’s face was as pale as frost and snow, the sunlight glinting across it like flecks of gold.

She drifted in his deep eyes, her heart beating faster.

Then he asked, as if it were obvious, “Isn’t it cute?”

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She blushed when he called her cute, and went red when he gently poked her dimples.

He’d fallen for a girl who was so easy to tease.

That was what Pei Yi'an had thought at first, until one day a message popped up in his WeChat: [Check out my abs.]

Cheerful girl x sweet-faced schemer|fencing x archery|two geniuses

Campus life · ensemble cast · sweet romance · both each other’s first love

Coming soon: Timid in Love

When Ning Zhuo’s friends heard that Wen Qiao had a new, attentive little sweetheart by her side, they gleefully offered their halfhearted comfort: “A green-tea guy who’s not as good-looking or well-connected as you isn’t worth keeping an eye on.”

Ning Zhuo gave a faint smile and said nothing.

How could he not care?

Acting sweet and pitiful, pretending to be sick and fragile, showing concern, and brewing a pot of green tea on the side: weren’t those the very tricks he’d used to win her over?

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Wen Qiao had noticed that Ning Zhuo had been acting strangely lately.

He texted her much more often, and whenever she let go of his hand, he would give her a wounded look. “You used to hold my hand whenever you went out. I guess everything gets old eventually.”

Sometimes, she would catch him sprawled on the sofa, rubbing her with the top of his foot. “Stop playing on your phone. Play with me.”

At first, Wen Qiao thought Ning Zhuo had been poisoned by mushrooms.

After asking around, she found out someone had mocked him to his face for being clueless about romance, saying she’d dump him sooner or later.

She hugged him sympathetically. “Aw, you’re just too softhearted. That’s why people bully you like this.”

A ridiculously oblivious human log of a woman x a green-tea guy who’s always trying to show off

Climate researcher x rich young master|both each other’s first love|happy ending|lighthearted sweet romance

Theme: Face life with courage