First Love Is Sweeter Than Eight Thousand Bags of Sugar

A character sketch Zhou Ming drew won a provincial award and was put on display in the school's showcase for everyone to see.

The students who gathered to look were surprised to discover that the person in the picture was none other than the handsome transfer student, Tang Yi.

Tang Yi had a gentle, beautiful face, with a beauty mark beneath his eye adding a captivating touch. Yet his personality was unusually aloof, and half a semester had passed without him getting close to anyone.

Before long, all kinds of rumors were circulating about why Tang Yi had ended up in Zhou Ming's drawing, and what sort of relationship the two of them had.

But behind the noisy crowd...

The aloof beauty everyone talked about was smiling, his voice gentle and teasing. "Hey~ why did you choose this one to enter the competition?"

With both hands behind his back, Tang Yi rose onto his toes and leaned close to the ear of the person beside him. Then he continued, "You even drew one of me without any clothes on."

Zhou Ming kept his eyes straight ahead and couldn't help swallowing, tongue-tied and unsure how to answer.

Glancing at Zhou Ming's bright red ears, Tang Yi narrowed his eyes with a smile. "You even said... that was the one you drew best."

When looking back on his first love, Zhou Ming often put it this way: "Even his fingertips were tinted with such beautiful colors."

(From Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country)

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