A Temperature-Sensitive Fairy Tale

△ [Reason comments are closed: The early writing was immature, and the whole thing has now been revised]

Feng Hua has one regret.

When she transferred schools after primary school, she failed to say a proper goodbye. Instead, she made a false promise: "See you when school starts, Li Xinghe! We'll still be deskmates!"

In truth, she'd carried that with her for a long time.

Feng Hua felt that, from her former deskmate's perspective, she was nothing but a shameless liar.

So, feeling guilty, the young girl asked around and learned that without a poor student like her holding him back, Li Xinghe had been doing wonderfully. He competed in academic contests in middle school and won so many prizes he could hardly keep count. He'd even become very close to his new deskmate.

Well, a boy as clever and handsome as him was bound to be popular.

Later, Feng Hua got into some obscure university. A senior in her department knew Li Xinghe, so she secretly added him as a contact and snooped on bits of his life, then frantically deleted her browsing history like a stalker fan.

Li Xinghe: Feng Hua?

Hua Hua: That's me.

Li Xinghe: ...

Hua Hua: You're so amazing, you must have gotten into a great school!

Li Xinghe: Harbin Institute of Technology. What about you?

Hua Hua: Some no-name university.

He didn't reply again.

Feng Hua sent a painfully awkward sticker.

At least she'd seen a recent photo of Li Xinghe. He wasn't her type at all!

But even though the gap between reality and her memories was a bit disappointing, that still didn't stop him from appearing in her dreams all the time.

With thousands of kilometers between them, forgetting the regret of never having said goodbye properly should be easy. All she had to do was find someone who matched her childhood tastes, someone even more perfect than Li Xinghe, and fall in love!

But she was at some no-name university...

Could she really meet a brilliant scholar as bright as a moonlit breeze?

*

That same day, Su Shiyi, who had missed his admission due to appendicitis, gave a speech as the freshman representative.

On screen, his face was magnified countless times. The spirited young man held a microphone, blue-green veins bulging and running down his forearm before disappearing beneath his sleeve.

"Hello, everyone. I'm your freshman representative, Su Shiyi..."

He was tall and slender, with sharply defined features, like a snowflake that had strayed into summer. He stood out brighter than anyone in the crowd.

Feng Hua was stunned.

This was what Li Xinghe should have looked like, grown up in exactly the way she'd imagined...

"I'm going to pursue him."

Feng Hua stared fixedly at Su Shiyi.

"I'm going to make him my boyfriend!!!"

Onstage, Su Shiyi spoke in a measured tone and lifted the microphone to remind her, "Miss, next time, remember to mute your mic first."

It wasn't until the real Li Xinghe, the unattainable first love she'd heard Feng Hua talk about more than eight hundred times, began showing up in her life that Su Shiyi developed a powerful sense of crisis.

He handed her the leash with a cold expression, but looped the other end around his own wrist and gripped it tightly. "Feng Hua, don't look back."

☆ Cover art thanks to Bishui Gu.

☆ Yunan City is fictional.

☆ The male lead will have some bipolar traits due to his family circumstances.

☆ A healing story: the male lead pulls the female lead out of an emotional mess, while the female lead helps him heal, treating the wounds in his psyche and reducing the risk of infection.

Theme: Successful healing helps people become better