Hard to Reach

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When Guan Xinghe was fifteen, a boy moved into her home.

He always wore shirts washed until they had faded white. His features were sharp and his back straight, like a young poplar.

He was an excellent student, always at the top of the school, but he was gloomy and quiet, and always kept to himself.

Guan Xinghe thought he was hard to approach.

But she didn't know...

On the night she fell ill, the boy made the hawthorn cake she wanted most. And on a bitterly cold, snowy day, he waited in line for hours to buy the CD she wanted most.

Whenever the boy thought of her, he wrote her name in his notebook.

By the time they graduated high school, he had filled ten notebooks, 1,600 pages in all, with each word restrained and feverish.

*

Born into hardship, He Zhuo grew up poor and had a difficult life.

Then he was taken in by the family supporting him, where he met Guan Xinghe.

The girl was warm and bright, like a ball of fire.

He Zhuo knew that a dark world like his didn't deserve any light, so he suppressed his feelings and kept his distance.

Until one day, rain poured down. Soaked to the skin, he followed behind Guan Xinghe and saw her sharing an umbrella with another boy.

The boy asked, "What exactly is that He Zhuo to you?"

Amid the sound of the rain, He Zhuo heard the girl's faint reply.

"I guess... he's like a big brother."

He Zhuo clenched his fists as anger surged through him. He strode forward without hesitation and cut in coldly: "Come home with me."

"No dating before you're old enough."

Originally titled My Powerful Big Brother's Secret Crush

Reading guide:

1. Insecure, devoted, obsessive male lead × gentle, sunny girl

2. No blood relation, and they aren't registered in the same household. The male lead is only staying at the female lead's home temporarily; she wasn't adopted.

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Cong Jia never thought she'd end up in an arranged marriage with Lin Chen.

In her memory, Lin Chen was always taciturn and silent. Her strongest memory of him was from the night before he transferred schools. Standing beneath a sky full of snow, he'd said to her calmly, "Goodbye, Cong Jia."

After they got married, they kept out of each other's way, until a car accident happened.

The doctor said Lin Chen's memories had gone back eight years. Cong Jia did the math: that was the year after Lin Chen transferred schools in high school.

She looked at Lin Chen lying in the hospital bed, his eyes avoiding hers and the tips of his ears faintly red. She sighed and spooned up some porridge. "Open your mouth."

A few seconds later, his tongue stung from the heat and his ears and cheeks were bright red, but he still managed to say, "It's good."

*

Cong Jia had always hoped Lin Chen would recover his memories and divorce her at the time they'd agreed on.

Until one day, while tidying the room, she accidentally came across Lin Chen's high school diary.

[November 13, 2010

Before leaving, I still couldn't say those words. I'm such an idiot.]

#In all those years you never knew about, I loved you secretly, all alone#

Reading guide: 1. Married first, fall in love later. The male lead has a one-sided crush. A purely sweet romance.

2. Both are virgins, happy ending.

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Theme: A story of redemption