Before midterms, Ming Yao made a wish on the school bell tower: "Heavens, if I can score higher than Chi Jiarang and come first this time, I'll confess to him!"
When the grades came out, Chi Jiarang got zero in English and came in second overall.
Ming Yao happily carried her test paper back to the dorm, but Chi Jiarang stopped her on the way.
He'd probably spent the whole night gaming. His voice was congested, and one foot lazily blocked her path.
"Is there something you want to tell me?" He lifted his eyelids. "Come on, I've got time. Just say it."
Ming Yao: "..."
*
On her sixteenth birthday, Ming Yao couldn't get tickets to her idol Jay Chou's concert.
Chi Jiarang rented out the Ferris wheel at the amusement park outside the venue so Ming Yao could watch the whole concert from the highest point.
Seeing Ming Yao gaze at Jay Chou without blinking, completely entranced, Chi Jiarang couldn't help saying, "You'd be better off chasing me than him."
Ming Yao glanced at him.
The boy spoke with arrogant confidence: "One day, I'll shine just as brightly as he does."
Ming Yao scoffed. "Dream on."
That night, Ming Yao wrote in her diary:
[I believe that one day, he'll shine brightly.]
*
On her twentieth birthday, Ming Yao got her heart broken.
That same day, God Chi, the world's deadliest player, led his teammates to break North America's long-standing dominance in the FPS scene. They crushed their powerful rivals and claimed the championship.
Golden confetti rained down. The proud young man, draped in the national flag and watched by the entire world, held up a pair of matching rings hanging around his neck and publicly confessed his love to his mysterious childhood sweetheart.
"I've waited for you for five years. I don't want to wait anymore."
That night, Weibo exploded.
Netizens eagerly began digging into the woman God Chi had pined for over the past five years.
As they dug, they discovered that this childhood sweetheart was nothing like the obscure internet celebrity they'd imagined:
She'd published a paper in a Nature subsidiary journal while still an undergraduate?!
A full scholarship for a degree in quantum physics at Caltech?!
And she's gorgeous, too?!
Our God Chi is such an arrogant jerk. Other than being rich, handsome, and good at gaming, he has no redeeming qualities. No wonder she wouldn't give him the time of day for five years :)
-A clever little fox, sweet but mischievous x an arrogant, self-satisfied king
-My favorite kind of mutual pining :-D
-You are the warmest memento of the best days of my life.
Theme:
After Leaving the Scene, I Slaughtered the League [Esports]
As If Nothing Happened Last Night
You're My Type, Dead Center [Esports]
Have You Fallen for Me?
A Rose for a Kiss
Tales of the Strange in Jinling
She Stands at the Center of Time
A Woman Named Ashu Decides to Die
Spring Drowsiness
Darkly Twisted, Sweetly Fresh
Love at First Sight
Entertainment World's Best Couple of the Year
Let the perfection remain in the novel.
The true meaning of life is regret, let perfection remain in novels
Everyone has regrets in their youth, and I do too. Someone like Chi Jiarang appeared in my youth, but the so-called romance means that there is no later. This is already very good, very good, really.
I kept interrupting the update until it was finished. I thought a lot of content was difficult to write, so I ended up updating it completely.
I don't know what to say, so I finished it in a hurry
The ending was so sloppy, it felt completely different from the previous one.
Come on! What you wrote is great!
Feeling fast forward? Although, it ends with flowers
Congratulations on finishing Spreading Flowers, but I feel like there is still a lot of room for improvement, so keep up the good work!
So there is no update today?