Where the Summer Breeze Hides

1.

Years ago, on the school playground, Lin Yunmeng saw Jiang Ye shooting hoops alone.

The sunset was beautiful, and the boy's hair was damp with sweat.

She was walking past when he called out, "Lin Rockhead."

Lin Yunmeng glanced at him coolly. "?"

The boy approached through the fading sunlight, step by step, and held out the basketball with casual nonchalance. "Play a game with me?"

"..." Lin Yunmeng shook her head. "I don't know how."

The boy seemed considerate. "I'll teach you."

"I'm not inter..."

Before she could finish, the boy bent down toward her, his phoenix eyes shimmering, his breath burning hot.

He stared at her. His fingers tightened around the basketball until his knuckles turned white, yet he spoke in an unhurried voice. "If you lose, you'll be my girlfriend."

Lin Yunmeng froze.

A faint smile tugged at the boy's lips, and his ears were already bright red. "If I lose, I'll be your boyfriend."

"..."

"So, will you play?"

2.

Years later, they meet again by chance.

Jiang Ye still has those striking phoenix eyes and star-bright gaze, still devastatingly handsome, still every bit the aloof young master whose casual air conceals a sharp edge.

Thinking of how things fell apart between them in high school, Lin Yunmeng assumes he hates her and deliberately keeps her distance.

But somehow, she keeps running into Jiang Ye.

At a gathering, Lin Yunmeng accidentally gets drunk.

The next day, when she sees Jiang Ye, he says unhurriedly, "Last night, you kept dragging me off to play basketball."

Lin Yunmeng's heart skips a beat. "?"

"You also said that if I lost, I'd be your boyfriend."

"...So did you lose?"

"I don't remember."

Jiang Ye's lips curl into a faint smile. His gaze is dark, and his Adam's apple bobs.

"You decide."

*Cool beauty x arrogant young master

*Includes high school flashbacks

*Not much entertainment-industry content

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Theme: Those who cannot forget will surely hear an answer.