Strawberry Hugs [Campus]

The End.

Next story: Stealing a Kiss from Starlight, featuring a school-bully racing-driver heroine and a brilliant, refined, scheming esports pro hero. Please add it to your reading list in my profile!

Novel Blurb

Senior year is approaching.

Uncle Mu brings a bleary-eyed Mu Fengxu to their door and earnestly asks Qi Nian to tutor his good-for-nothing son, appealing to their many years of friendship.

Since she'd grown up eating the meals Uncle Mu cooked, Qi Nian felt she owed him and agreed.

And so her nightmarish summer vacation began.

First day of tutoring.

Mu Fengxu broke her teddy bear.

Second day of tutoring.

Mu Fengxu snapped her fountain pen.

Third day of tutoring.

Mu Fengxu ripped her skirt.

Grinding her teeth, Qi Nian, her baby face puffed up with anger, laid down three rules. "Mu Fengxu, don't touch my things again!"

Who could have guessed that the world would suddenly spin, and Mu Fengxu, with his long legs and long arms, would pin her against the wall in a corner?

His voice was languid, his dark eyes glinting. "Sure. Then I'll play with..."

He stared at her, the corner of his thin lips curling in a lazy smile.

His warm breath brushed over her. It smelled so good.

"..." Qi Nian fell silent for a moment.

Then she planted a solid kick in his rear. "Get out!"

The door slammed shut with a bang.

#

On the other side of the door,

Mu Fengxu slipped both hands into his pockets, his delicate brows lowered and his expression composed.

Meanwhile, the flush on Qi Nian's cheeks took a long time to fade.

A well-behaved top student who says one thing and means another, and a shameless, good-for-nothing school heartthrob

Mutual pining / First love / Childhood friends

Next story by Tao: Stealing a Kiss from Starlight

In high school, Li Yao was the queen of the school.

She set her sights on Lin Yexing, the quiet, refined, slender new transfer student in her class.

When Lin Yexing was bullied, she stood up for him and beat the thugs so badly they couldn't get out of bed for three days.

When Lin Yexing was framed, she rushed into the broadcasting room to clear his name and got reprimanded by the dean for a whole week.

When Lin Yexing was accused of cheating, she took all the blame in the exam hall and was suspended for half a month.

Later, when Lin Yexing was confessed to, Li Yao blocked his way home.

She threatened him in a sweet voice. "Lin Yexing, if you dare like someone else, I'll bite you."

In a dim, narrow alley, the streetlight cast a pale, cold glow.

Lin Yexing stood in the shadows and looked up at her, his voice icy. "I don't like you, and I never will."

The boy's expression was detached, and the complicated feelings in his eyes were beyond Li Yao's understanding.

So Li Yao gave up.

She wasn't the kind of person who would cling to someone forever.

#

After graduation, Li Yao, whom her teachers had looked down on and bluntly called hopeless, became a racing driver.

She won trophies at competitions of every size, both at home and abroad.

One rainy night,

Li Yao ran back from the convenience store downstairs through the rain. As she waited at the traffic light, Lin Yexing suddenly appeared holding an umbrella.

He was still as handsome as he had been in high school, his thin lips pressed together and his eyes dark.

Li Yao gave a soft laugh.

Then she turned and walked into the pouring rain.

Lin Yexing stood where he was, his umbrella lowering.

His vision was blurred, but his gaze followed Li Yao's retreating figure the entire time.

Chasing his wife to the crematorium

Esports pro hero and racing-driver heroine

School life in the first half, city life in the second

Theme: Sweet mutual pining