Art Prodigy (a little distant and insecure, but unable to hide how much he likes her) & Finance Whiz (a little tsundere, but unable to resist how much she likes him)
After Yu Tingwan rejected him again, Lu Fengzhou tried to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
His friend tried to console him. “A lot of girls are just acting out of vanity. They like being chased, so they turn you down with excuses like not wanting a relationship, then keep you around to worship them.”
“They hide their awful personalities behind pretty faces. Who knows how many backup guys they’re stringing along in private?”
His expression turned cold on the spot. He couldn’t stand anyone talking about her like that. He complained about her coldness, yet could still see the occasional tenderness in her eyes. One glance from her, and the whole world seemed to unfold before him. He’d never escape the palm of her hand.
Of Yu Tingwan’s many admirers, Lu Fengzhou was the most persistent, and the one who gave her the most trouble.
Out of options, she told him that if he could find a lock bearing her name on the love-lock wall at Jingshan Tower, she would accept him.
Tourists flocked to the tower every day, and there were countless love locks left by couples. Lu Fengzhou searched for two days and one night without finding Yu Tingwan’s lock.
In the drizzle, exhausted and disheveled, he sat on the mountainside and called her. “Did you never hang up a lock at all?”
There was a long silence before she answered. “...Yes.”
He was so angry he could have cried. His eyes reddened as he made a fierce vow. “Yu Tingwan, if I ever like you again, I’m a damn dog!”
The girl not far away held her phone and watched him through tears. “Then let me be the one who likes you.”
Lu Fengzhou: “Woof!”
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A mixed-race doll with someone else in her heart (sculptor) & a celestial beauty on a high peak, doomed to unrequited love (engineering physicist)
1. A friend asked Tan Shiyong why she liked Yan Chuyang. She pondered for a moment. “His untitled love letter to me made my heart flutter a little. On that time of the month, he had someone bring me red dates, and I was so touched. I truly fell for him the day he carried me down the mountain.”
She didn’t know that Tan Shuye had written the untitled love letter for Yan Chuyang, that he had asked someone to bring her the red dates, and that he was the one who carried her down the mountain to the hospital.
2. Tan Shuye asked Tan Shiyong what she wanted to do. She said, “Besides becoming a sculptor, I once wanted to be the wife of Apollo, the sun god. I believe in astrology, and ever since I was little, I thought I’d find Apollo, the guardian god of Leo. But after I broke up with Yan Chuyang, I stopped wanting to find some sun god.”
The deep night hid the faint blush on Tan Shuye’s porcelain-white face. He wanted to become a scientist someday, so he said softly, “You could be a scientist’s wife, too.”
“No way,” the girl beside him said, shaking her head.
He lowered his eyes, his heart aching dully. The wind chases fallen leaves, the leaves chase dust; colorful clouds chase the moon, the moon chases the dawn. He liked her, but she loved someone else.
3. Much later, Tan Shiyong realized she had fallen for her ex’s friend, Tan Shuye. But she heard that he had been secretly in love with a girl since high school, and was completely devoted to her. So she had no choice but to bury the feelings that had never had a chance to grow. Then one day, she saw that every heroine in his sketchbooks was her.
Theme: First love. Reunions after parting.