Summer's Cool Repose

"What's your name?"

"Jingliang. My name is Ye Jingliang."

"Nice name. It's good to meet you. I'm Zhu Yixuan."

"Hello..."

For years, she had tried every way she could to get away from that place. She changed her name, even disguised herself as a man, leaving behind everyone and everything that had once tormented her. But what good did it do? Night after night, she dreamed of those brief happy times: her grandmother, her classmates, and him.

"I'll go back and take back everything they owe me, one by one."

So what if the things she longed for and the things she hated were all in the same place? What belonged to her, she could reclaim. Disguising herself as a man wasn't about running away. It was so she could fight better!

"Ye Jingliang?" Zhu Yixuan enunciated each syllable, looking across the party at the tall, handsome "man." "How interesting." His hand tightened around his champagne glass.