Today Is a Good Day to See You

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Lu Shichen was the kind of person everyone adored. At Xingyang Private High School, everyone knew the student council president seemed like a model student, but the girls around him kept changing one after another.

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Ye Shenshen's birthday fell in the height of summer, in July after graduating high school. Her birthday party was warm and simple. After what felt like a long summer, she thought there would be no more surprises.

As midnight approached, she finally blew out the candles on her birthday cake. When the lights came on, Lu Shichen appeared at the door of the private room, his bold, deep-set features irresistible.

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She heard that while on a flight back from across the ocean, he learned at the airport that it was her birthday and casually bought her a star-shaped pendant at the duty-free shop.

Amid the cheers, he looked at her with a casual air that held a hint of sincerity and said, "Happy birthday, Ye." When the party broke up, someone asked him if he was interested in Ye.

He smiled faintly. "I'm not."

2.

Those words put an end to every hope she had.

In the greenest days of her youth, she carefully hid her feelings, like the wind traveling thousands of miles, ceaselessly blowing all the while.

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When she met Lu Shichen again at university, he was still proud and radiant, with the same bold air. Rumors about him and various girls never stopped.

She stayed silent, hearing about and sometimes witnessing his many romantic escapades.

On her birthday, someone confessed to her. That day, Lu Shichen's gaze suddenly turned inscrutable.

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He flicked the ash from his cigarette. His face was cold and handsome, his eyes dark and brooding. When someone offered him a light, he irritably bent his head to take it between his lips. Then he looked up again, his shadowed gaze fixed on her.

Before the birthday party was over, he pulled her into a dark corner. Again and again, he tested the waters, leaning closer to her, barely holding back his restless desire as he moved toward her flushed ear. His voice was hoarse. "Would you try falling for me?"

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Later, on a rainy night, she was lost and disappointed, walking alone down a street battered by torrential rain. The weather was awful, but he was behind her, holding an umbrella over her. Suddenly, she understood that some people could never be replaced.

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I can't explain why I love you, but I know you're the reason I can't love anyone else.

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./Warm and healing x seemingly aloof/

./School life + city life/

Theme: Live well and keep moving forward.