Ivy [Campus]

Misaligned Secret Crush | Straightforward Heroine and Hero | Sour-Sweet Push and Pull, Sour First, Sweet Later | Healing Vibes (You Read That Right)

A love story between two idealists

For Xia Anchen, loving Lin Guangyi was as natural as breathing.

She studied him, followed him, and gave him her deepest understanding and admiration, placing him on an untouchable pedestal.

Then Xiang Yang abruptly shattered that habit.

He barged into her shrine of secret love and refused to let up, pressing her relentlessly, unwilling to give in.

"Xia Anchen, do you like him that much?" Xiang Yang looked down at her, struggling to keep his voice steady, but unable to hide the heartbreak in his eyes. "You like him, yet you don't even dare ask him a single question. Do you really like indulging in your own wishful thinking that much?"

She looked at him expressionlessly. "Who I like, and how I like them, is my business."

Xiang Yang suddenly smiled, as if he had finally given up hope. "Fine. Then liking you is my business too. You can't stop me."

Years later, even when Xia Anchen received another call from Xiang Yang, she never imagined there could still be a future for them.

After all, he'd once said they had never been friends.

The boy had been so sincere and passionate, so proud and dazzling. He deserved the purest, most flawless love, not someone like her, who had once loved someone else.

If they weren't friends, she shouldn't bother him.

But when he braved the snow and wind to fly to Denver, she couldn't help reaching out to brush the white frost from his lashes as she saw the sheen of sweat on his forehead.

She snapped out of her daze and tried to pull her hand back, but Xiang Yang seized it.

"Xia Anchen, this time, I'm not imagining things, am I?"

Before he met Xia Anchen, Xiang Yang had never imagined he would stumble so many times over one person in his life.

She'd put his heart through the wringer, yet he still wouldn't let go. His friends even suspected he had a masochistic streak.

Xiang Yang couldn't be bothered to explain.

They didn't understand that loving the sun needed no reason.

On the surface: the heartless girl x the proud boy

In truth: sun x sun

After graduation: a warm, steadfast investigative tech journalist x a talented young game architecture engineer

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine's feelings never waver, and she has a well-developed growth arc.

2. The story spans ten years. The hero has an unmistakable crush on the heroine the whole time.

3. The second male lead is an important catalyst in the romance, so please be patient with him QAQ

4. The high school portion is a little gloomy, but things won't stay oppressive. The later part is satisfying.

Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else.