I Like You So Much

The blurb is provisional. Posting in 2025. If you like it, feel free to bookmark it for now!

Blurb:

Both of Zhou Xi's parents know she's been in love with someone for years, yet they keep pressuring her to get married.

To avoid blind dates, Zhou Xi secretly runs off to her hometown to teach at a rural school.

There, she unexpectedly reunites with the boy who used to call her "Little Sis."

Zhou Xi starts dreaming the dreams she had as a girl all over again, hoping she can stay with that gentle, melancholy boy forever.

But when she goes to the city for training over the summer, her mother tells her outright that she's already arranged a marriage for her. Her fiance is the heir to a five-star hotel chain, and the wedding is set for the eleventh lunar month.

To refuse the marriage, she nearly falls out with her family. After she returns to school, she learns that he is getting married too. She hears that his fiancee is a wealthy heiress.

After hearing about the situation, her mother tells Zhou Xi to give up. If she can't have love, she still needs a livelihood.

Even though the man she loves is getting married, and even though her mother berates her over the phone, Zhou Xi refuses to settle.

Resolved to spend her life alone, Zhou Xi pours all her energy into teaching at the rural school.

Then, one night, with the wedding date drawing near,

the man she'd been avoiding for months knocks on her door and asks, as gently as ever, "Little Sis, do you still like me?"

Zhou Xi hesitantly nods.

He smiles. "Then why did my mother-in-law tell me you cried, made a scene, and threatened to hang yourself rather than marry me?"

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A sweet romance! Super sweet!!

Reader's Guide:

Rural schoolteacher x head of a business group

1. 1v1 sweet romance, happy ending

2. Posting in 2025

Theme: Focus on education in impoverished mountain villages, and help the idea of encouraging children to attend college take root in rural parents' minds.