Steady, gentle, self-effacing seme × bold, flirtatious, proud uke
[School story | Mutual pining | Love at first sight | A little bittersweet]
Gangchang No. 1 High School is a top provincial school, full of brilliant students.
From the moment Li Xiao got into the school, she never imagined she'd have any kind of “relationship” with Pei Yuyi. Pei Yuyi had excellent grades, was beautiful, came from a wealthy family, and had skipped a grade to attend high school. She seemed to come from a different world.
The only exception was one day after school, when it rained heavily and Pei Yuyi offered to share her umbrella. But it happened only once. They stood close together, hands one above the other on the handle.
Pei Yuyi asked her what her name was and which class she was in.
Li Xiao said, “Maybe we'll meet again if fate allows.”
Things changed when Pei Yuyi was transferred into a new class, the same one as Li Xiao's.
She was a little shorter than Li Xiao, and stood at the front of the classroom, smiling as she introduced herself.
As if fate were playing a joke, the boldest and proudest Pei Yuyi became the deskmate in front of the most self-effacing, forgettable Li Xiao.
Li Xiao's heart skipped a beat. But Pei Yuyi had so many friends. Surely she wouldn't remember someone as invisible as her?
During the brief ten-minute break, Pei Yuyi turned around from the desk in front and pressed a hand on Li Xiao's exercise book as she hurriedly wrote. She tilted her head in boredom, as if teasing her. “Maybe we'll meet again if fate allows. Looks like we're pretty fated, huh?”
“Don't you want to talk to me? Do you hate me?”
“No.”
“Oh, so you like me?”
Li Xiao felt she'd fallen into Pei Yuyi's trap. She looked down at the page of equations, where somehow she'd written the character Pei. She fell silent and didn't answer.
So not hating someone means you like them? She knew that logic was wrong, but whenever she was with Pei Yuyi, she could never think of anything to say in reply.
On the last day of school before the long holiday, the classroom was buzzing with noise, and several students from other classes came to find Pei Yuyi.
“You have so many friends,” Li Xiao said, then added in a very small voice, “...I hate you.”
Pei Yuyi immediately turned to look at her, smiling as she asked with utmost seriousness, “Why do you hate me again?”
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Beyond the silent northern winds and bone-chilling snow of Gangchang, there was also Pei Yuyi and her promise.
“Didn't you say Beijing was nice? Let's go to Beijing.”
Li Xiao didn't think she had any right to hope for such a thing, but Pei Yuyi was determined, holding out her hand for a pinky promise. Their warm fingers touched, and Pei Yuyi looked into her eyes and said:
“We'll leave Gangchang together and never come back.”
Theme: Girls from the Northeast, go chase the distant horizon
