My Secret Crush Is Fighting Everyone for Me

Reunion at the start | Sign language interpreter vs. criminal police officer | Coming soon: My Brother, My Childhood Friend, My Husband

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Trending online: "What is the person you have a crush on like?"

Seven years after graduation, Zhen Xi wrote this in response:

When I reported my abusive father to the police and was blamed for it, he bought me medicine and said, "Don't cry. You did nothing wrong."

When I was assigned to sit with a boy I couldn't stand, he said, "Zhen Xi, sit with me."

When a student from a well-connected family took the financial aid meant for poor students, he reported it to the principal's mailbox. I didn't know how to thank him, but he just told me, "The school's sweet-and-sour ribs are delicious. Go eat them for me."

During a school trip, I was walking at the very back by myself, and he kept looking back. Across a sea of people, the cool-faced boy mouthed to me, "Keep up with me. Don't get lost."

But we haven't seen each other in seven years.

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Later, someone commented: Do you still have a crush on him?

Zhen Xi replied: Not anymore. We're together now (〃'▽'〃)

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When Chu Xun learned that his girlfriend had once had a crush on someone for ten years, he remained perfectly calm.

Zhen Xi asked quietly, "You really don't mind?"

"No," Chu Xun said, his handsome face cold and austere. "But if you bring him up one more time, you may end up crying tonight."

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During the years she had a crush on Chu Xun, Zhen Xi once wrote in her diary:

I want to know how your hand feels in mine, whether your lips are soft when I kiss them, what you smell like when I hold you, and what you're like when you love someone. I want to know all of it.

Later, someone cradled her face and kissed her tenderly.

"Do you know now?"

Their noses touched, close and intimate.

Chu Xun looked into her eyes and said softly, "What I'm like when I love someone."

"Little Bonus Scene"

Zhen Xi's notes list the things Chu Xun likes:

Chu Xun likes sweets. He has an elementary-schooler's taste.

Chu Xun likes hiking.

Chu Xun likes puppies...

Later, someone added another line below in different handwriting:

Chu Xun likes Zhen Xi most of all.

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Coming soon: My Brother, My Childhood Friend, My Husband

1.

When her family nags her to get married, Zhong Lin turns her attention to her childhood friend, hoping to get him to enter a "fake marriage" with her and put an end to the pressure once and for all.

Her childhood friend, Xu Hezhi, is an Air Force colonel and a bomber pilot who has won the Golden Dart three times. He is handsome, refined, and impeccably proper. Unfortunately, he's as aloof as a mountain flower, has no women in his life except her, and will die alone if she leaves him.

She barges into the Xu family's home. "Do you want to experience a marriage that starts with a home invasion?"

Xu Hezhi, his handsome face as cold as ice, reaches out and pokes her forehead. "If you're not awake yet, go home and sleep. Don't come here acting crazy."

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After failing to make her childhood friend play along, Zhong Lin seeks another way out and interviews potential "marriage partners."

She's having a great conversation with one when Xu Hezhi appears out of nowhere and pulls her away.

Xu Hezhi: "What are you doing?"

Zhong Lin, innocent: "Looking for a husband."

Xu Hezhi says coldly, "Well, now you've got one."

Zhong Lin pouts. "Didn't you say I was acting crazy?"

Xu Hezhi lowers his long lashes and says softly, "When have I ever not played along when you were acting crazy?"

3.

Swayed by his good looks and the time they spend together, Zhong Lin realizes that their friendship has changed, at least on her side.

She asks as if it were no big deal, "Have you ever suddenly started liking me?"

Xu Hezhi remains expressionless. "No."

She grabs the collar of his uniform. "Not even a little?"

Xu Hezhi: "No."

Zhong Lin's mouth turns down, and her expression becomes hurt.

Then a cool, gentle voice drifts down from above her head:

"I've always liked you."

"I like you very, very much."

I've liked you since before I even knew what it meant to like someone.

2026.10.06

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