Like the Wind

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After graduating, Li Nian returns to teach at her old high school. The moment she taps the three-foot podium, she realizes just how far she and Yi Qingchen went back then.

After divorcing Yi Qingchen, Li Nian acts as if nothing happened and carries on teaching and filling in for other teachers as usual. Still, she hears plenty of rumors.

For instance, Yi Qingchen drank until she bled from the stomach, kept looking for people to cry to about how much she loved her, and stopped eating and drinking, even making such a fuss that she was given a critical condition notice.

Li Nian just laughs when she hears it. Swirling the wine in her glass, she calmly asks a friend to pass a message to Yi Qingchen: "If you're a man, go all the way. I'll definitely burn paper money for you on the seventh day after your death."

Yi Qingchen had been perfectly fine, but the message nearly made her so angry she passed out. She went straight to Li Nian's place to demand an explanation.

"We broke up. You didn't have to curse me dead, did you?" Yi Qingchen asks through gritted teeth, then looks down and sees the ring mark on Li Nian's ring finger.

Li Nian smiles brightly. "Everyone dies eventually. I'll burn paper money for you, and after knowing you for ten years, being entangled with you for six, and being married to you for seven months, I think that's the least I can do, don't you?"

Li Nian once admitted that she was the biggest loser in their relationship. She had fallen for Yi Qingchen alone at fifteen, and that love lasted ten years.

Hearing this, Yi Qingchen snaps the wolf-hair brush in her hand and asks coolly, "Who the hell said I didn't like Li Nian when I was fifteen?"

*

One day, a student gives Li Nian an old library book and says her name is written inside. It brings back a hazy memory of the book she read as a teenager.

Only after opening it does she discover that the confession letter from ten years ago, the one she never got to see, was written by her.

Love at first sight, misplaced feelings, mutual affection, a passionate affair, an unbroken bond, years of entanglement.

[Angst-heavy. 1v1, both virgins, happy ending.]

[The hero isn't a scumbag. It's all a misunderstanding.]

[She kept waiting to say goodbye, but it never came to pass.]

[This story puts the hero through the wringer, then gives him a happy ending. Not recommended if you want to see the leads being sweet together. The hero makes no unforgivable mistakes, but this is a pure groveling-for-forgiveness story.]

Theme: She kept waiting to say goodbye, but it never came to pass.