Berlin Girl

Living-under-the-same-roof trope / five-year age gap / both virgins / rekindled love

School life in the first half, city life in the second.

1.

When Su Jingyi was sixteen, a car accident took both her parents.

As her father lay dying, he entrusted her to his wife, Fang Yumei. That was when she learned that she and her mother had never been allowed to live openly.

Fang Yumei's nephew came from their hometown to attend university in Shanghai, and moved in with his aunt.

Su Jingyi followed Fang Chengyi's lead and called Fang Yumei Aunt.

She thought the life ahead would be bitter as poison, but Fang Chengyi gave her sweetness.

The girl was timid, but carried a grand secret in her heart.

That night, Fang Yumei's flight was canceled, so her business trip was postponed until the next day. When she got home, she saw that Jingyi's room on the second floor was completely dark.

Jingyi never went out at night. Studying in her room until the early hours was her usual routine.

Fang Yumei knocked on Fang Chengyi's door and asked where Jingyi was.

It took a long while for anyone to answer.

Jingyi said in a trembling voice, "Auntie, Brother... is helping me with my homework."

Later, as they entwined in the cluttered storage room tucked away in an unnoticed corner of the hallway, Fang Chengyi covered her in homework.

Fang Yumei's footsteps outside came and went. Fang Chengyi covered Jingyi's mouth and said shamelessly, "You can hold back your voice, but from now on, don't hold back the fact that you like me."

2.

In his third year as a professional motorcycle racer, Fang Chengyi signed with a top German team and moved to Berlin.

The team's only Chinese racer, he made a dazzling debut, winning the rookie race at his first competition.

The foreign media called him: "The Chinese racer who doesn't care if he lives or dies has invaded Germany and claimed the crown."

After the race, fans cheered without end, and a crowd of reporters waited outside to interview him.

Racers kept coming out of the venue's locker room, but the sport's rising star was nowhere to be seen.

Su Jingyi pulled herself out of Fang Chengyi's arms and looked in the mirror at her lipstick, smeared by his kisses, as she straightened her shoulder straps.

The man held her chin, his expressionless face close to hers. "You spent all these years hiding from me, and I still found you. Su Jingyi, that's about the only thing you're good at."

Much later, Fang Chengyi appeared before the media with his arm around Su Jingyi's shoulders and said with a smile, "It's not that I don't care if I live or die. I'm afraid that if I don't climb high enough, she won't be able to see me."

"Su Jingyi, those who aren't willing to risk it will never win. That's true of racing, and it's true of loving you."

Blurb finalized on 2024.2.20 and saved as a screenshot. Do not use it.

The heroine was already over sixteen when her parents died, past the legal age for adoption, so she did not need a guardian. Her aunt was only entrusted with her care, with no legal obligations. There is no legal or blood relationship between the male and female leads.

The leads have no intimate contact before reaching adulthood.

Theme: Those who aren't willing to risk it will never win.