Pick Me for Online Dating, I'm Super Sweet

Please add my upcoming story to your favorites, ovo. The blurb is below.

Lu Mian recently made the rich list in a hugely popular online game, even if she was barely clinging to the bottom spot.

She was also rumored to be a cute, sweet, and easily swept-off-her-feet girl in real life.

Every single male player in the game went wild, howling as they rushed toward her.

Unable to stand the endless harassment, Lu Mian thought it over for several days. Then, on a dark and windy night, she dramatically set up a tournament arena:

A matchmaking pageant.

Good gear doesn't matter, and neither does having money. All you need is to be good at character customization, putting outfits together, and farming.

The whole internet watching for gossip: ...Are you playing Legend, or Legend: Nikki's Farm Tour?

Even so, they signed up without hesitation.

But on the first day of the pageant, an unexpected male character showed up to compete.

He was first on the Skill Rankings, first on the Rich List, and first on the Popularity Rankings.

The most infuriating part was that his outfits were an eyesore, and the internet said he was a girl pretending to be a guy :)

The spectators were furious: You're a woman, and you're richer and more powerful than us. Fine. But now you're trying to steal our rich girl too?!

Lu Mian, who'd eaten her fill of online-dating scam stories, was overcome with joy: Her! I choose her!

This story is also known as "Sisters Changing Outfits Together," "My Husband Is One of the Girls," and "The Cool Big Sister I Fell for Turned Out to Be a Guy.jpg"

The Last Evening of Summer

A couple of things we can be certain of are enough to withstand all the uncertainties of the world.

Chen Chuncheng, The Submarine at Night

In the midsummer of her sixteenth year, Wen Shiyu carefully wrote two things in her plans for the future.

First, she would apply to Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College.

Second, she liked Chi Sheng.

That summer, on a mountaintop in Nancheng to watch the sunrise, Chi Sheng was surrounded by a group of boys. A girl who had come along leaned over and quietly asked Wen Shiyu, "Is there someone you like?"

In the light of the rising sun, Wen Shiyu met Chi Sheng's eyes across the crowd. Startled, she quickly looked away and laughed as she denied it. "I can barely keep up with my studies. How would I have time for a secret crush?"

A girl's feelings were awkward and hard to confess. She filled sheets of scrap paper with his name, keeping her love for him as her deepest secret.

The closest she and he ever came during their youth was in their second year of high school, when the school lost power and the crowd pushed her into his arms. His breath brushed her ear.

She kept her composure, listening to a heartbeat only she could hear, and set the date of that night as her phone's lock-screen password.

On graduation night, Chi Sheng drank too much. His classmates teased him, asking if there was someone he liked. Beneath the dim yellow lights, his face flushed, his eyes gentle. "There is."

She had spent three years working up the courage to confess, only to have that courage crumble at his one-word answer.

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Later, during their first year of college, they attended an alumni gathering. Someone suggested they play "Never Have I Ever."

The first alumnus bashfully asked a simple question: I've never had a secret crush on anyone in high school.

Wen Shiyu and Chi Sheng both picked up their drinks.

The alumnus, eager to stir things up, said: The person I had a crush on isn't here today.

As everyone stared at her, Wen Shiyu's heart raced and her hand trembled, but she firmly picked up her glass.

-

Later still, after they got together, Wen Shiyu asked Chi Sheng when he had started liking her.

Holding her, Chi Sheng let his breath fall against her ear. "That summer evening, when you looked at me, your eyes held the starlight I love most."

Mutual pining #FromSchoolUniformsToWeddingGowns

Theme: Develop a healthy perspective on love.