When I was ten, I made three wishes.
To raise a cute kitten, open a dessert shop, and meet someone who would walk with me under an umbrella on a rainy day.
At fifteen, I met Liang Xingzhao briefly, then had to transfer schools because of an enrollment issue.
The school's oppressive, closed-off environment nearly crushed me. Everyone told me to be sensible. Only she saw my pain and reached out when I was on the verge of despair.
Throughout those youthful, tentative years, Liang Xingzhao was always by my side. Our intimacy bloomed amid laughter, but I was too slow to realize it and thought we were best friends.
Then Liang Xingzhao's words, "I don't want to be just friends anymore," shattered the calm of my life. I was shocked. I denied it. I didn't understand... I felt resentful. I was confused. I finally saw the truth.
It turned out that falling in love with your fifth love interest was real.
But behind those burning feelings, there seemed to be a mystery that had yet to be unraveled.
Gentle, scheming, guiding type x clear-eyed, slow-to-catch-on good girl
Liang Xingzhao x Chu Jianyu
P.S. First person. The characters aren't perfect, and this isn't a wish-fulfillment story. The early part is heavy and slow-paced!! The middle and later parts are healing and funny. There are no secondary couples, or at most they'll be mentioned in a single line.
School to city | Mutual salvation | Second chance romance | Older woman
No need to overthink it. I wanted to write this for the Love and the Fifth game, essentially a beautiful love story between RXZ and TXZ. You don't need to have played the game to enjoy it.
The Love and the Fifth-related plot doesn't appear until the middle. The whole story doesn't revolve around the game, so readers who don't want too much game content should think twice before diving in.
Theme: Moving forward isn't just for love, but for yourself, too.
