Warmth on Your Lips

After the college entrance exams, Nan Feng prepared 999 roses to confess to the boy of her dreams, only to learn that he had gone abroad long ago and hadn’t even taken the exams.

The beautiful dream she had cherished for three years shattered without warning. Red-eyed, Nan Feng charged into his classroom and wrote on the blackboard:

[Nan Feng loves Meng Xizhou, loves him very, very much, from freshman year to senior year. But now, she doesn’t love him anymore!!!]

And so, before the shocked eyes of the entire school, three enormous exclamation marks brought this heartbreaking unrequited love to a spectacular end.

*

The two met again at a party.

By then, Nan Feng was a shining star, the center of attention wherever she went;

while a certain someone could only clutch a wineglass in a corner, ignored by everyone from beginning to end.

The only thing that hadn’t changed was his cool, disdainful gaze whenever he looked at her.

To avenge her past humiliation, Nan Feng laid a sweet trap, took his innocence, then slapped ten RMB bills against his face the next day and sauntered away humming a tune, even more briskly than he had left the country back then.

The man stared coldly at her retreating back without a word, as if he didn’t care.

But that night, he stood in the rain outside Nan Feng’s apartment building all night. His fine suit was ruined, and soggy cigarette butts littered the ground at his feet.

*

Everyone thought this would be the last time the two crossed paths. Nan Feng thought so too.

But who could have guessed that after that, countless lawyer’s letters would fly out in her name in every direction?

The online trolls who had attacked Nan Feng all knelt at their keyboards and called her “Dad” in unison;

The actresses who had fought her for roles showed up with top-tier scripts and commercial deals, begging her to take them off their hands;

Even the rich second-generation heirs who had flirted with Nan Feng scrambled to send her cars and houses and apologize, begging her to go easy on them and leave them at least a broken bowl to beg with.

Nan Feng even started receiving roses every day when she went out, starting with one and eventually reaching 999.

?

Had the aloof beauty lost her mind?

Nan Feng couldn’t make sense of it.

Then one day, she saw a blurry video and learned that on the night after the college entrance exams, beneath her crooked handwriting, someone had stubbornly added:

[Meng Xizhou loves Nan Feng, loves her very, very much, from freshman year to forever.]

His strokes were firm and resolute, just like the feelings he had never changed over all these years.

(Blurb first version: 2019.11.28; second version: 2020.5.4)

- Mutual pining / both virgins / the wife-chasing crematorium trope

- Enforcing the law strictly, and still loving you.

- spoiled, dazzling national sweetheart x scheming, celibate aloof beauty

Theme: Don’t lose yourself in love.