He's Sneaking Glances at Me Today, Too

Completed. My next story, "A Thousand Moments of Heartbeat for You," is set in school and the city. Please add it to your reading list. It opens in March. Yan Qiao has a family heirloom passed down from her grandfather. Her grandfather repeatedly warned her, "You must never write anyone's name on it." Yan Qiao nodded cheerfully, then saw Lu Yuanchao for the first time and declared: What family rule? Ever since the transfer student arrived, Yan Qiao had finally found someone to confide in about the feelings she had kept hidden for years. "His hands and hair are so beautiful. I wish I could sit next to him, so I could look at him every day." "I don't like how he never talks. I wish I could comfort him." "I like him. I wish he liked me too." Later, every wish in her diary came true. And later still, she discovered she could no longer write anyone else's name in it, including her own. Until, on their wedding night, Lu Yuanchao was half drunk and half awake... "I liked you first... I like your hands and hair too, and the way you look when you don't say a word." "At a glance, I knew we were made for each other." Coming soon: "A Thousand Moments of Heartbeat for You," launching in March. Please add it to your reading list~ Blurb: Life has its surprises, and Lu Yuning was a happy one. During the reckless days of youth, Lu Yuning carefully studied someone's likes and dislikes, learned his deepest thoughts, and edged closer to him step by step. At the basketball court, she fell in love at first sight with the boy drenched in sweat on the court. Pointing him out to her brother, she bragged: "See him? That's my future husband. Isn't he handsome?" It was only to be expected that Lu Yuning would win Shen Hexi over. He had never met anyone who understood him so well: his rebellious streak beneath the sunshine, his carelessness beneath his seriousness, and the unwillingness hidden in his brilliant smile. She was born to embrace him. What she had thought was a match made in heaven became an encounter on a narrow road after the college entrance exam, and neither of them would speak of it. When they met again after graduation, Shen Hexi had become the person everyone called the most reckless. He changed his college entrance exam preferences and lived on the edge between life and death. Everyone openly lamented his choices, but in her mouth, their regrets became the sweetest, most beautiful praise: "He's always been like that: carefree, unruly, and hard to handle." The obedient boy everyone saw had merely put on a disguise called "going with the flow" in his youth, playing the sunny boy they liked. Only she had once, on a sunny afternoon, pierced the illusion he had maintained for so long: Standing against the light, the girl was assertive and bold. "Don't you get tired of pretending?" Shen Hexi took her words to heart. Five years after she cut off contact, he came to find her, to pick her up when she was drunk. Tipsy, Lu Yuning acted as if she couldn't see him. The man, all lazy swagger, whistled at her and followed her home. At her front door, Lu Yuning could take it no longer and confronted him. "I told you we were breaking up back then." The man flicked away his cigarette ash, grinning wildly and brazenly. His forceful, all-or-nothing smile was exactly like hers had been back then. "Did you? Well, I never agreed." "I take the unconventional road and walk the edge. I love only you." ▲ Surgeon x flight attendant and teacher ▲ School and city settings, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Theme: