Stealing a Kiss Beneath the Starlight

The main story is complete. Extra chapters will be updated irregularly. My next story, Stealing a Kiss from a Lychee, will start on the 9th and 23rd in my column. Please add it to your favorites!

---- Story blurb ----

A beautiful, willful female racer who gets her way through force X a calculating, refined male esports star

In high school, Li Yao was a good-for-nothing.

She took a liking to Lin Yexing, the quiet, handsome, slender transfer student in her class.

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

When he was falsely accused, she stormed into the broadcasting room to clear his name and got reprimanded by the dean for a week.

When he was framed for cheating, she took all the blame in the exam hall and was suspended for half a month.

Later, when Lin Yexing received a confession, Li Yao blocked his way home.

She threatened him in the sweetest voice she could manage: "Lin Yexing, if you dare like someone else, I'll bite you."

The alley entrance was dark and narrow, and 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. I never will."

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

Then Li Yao gave up.

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

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

She won trophy after trophy in competitions both at home and abroad.

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

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

Li Yao chuckled softly.

Then she turned and walked into the pouring rain.

Lin Yexing remained where he was, his umbrella drooping.

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

Male esports star and female racer

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

---- Blurb for the upcoming story Stealing a Kiss from a Lychee ----

When Ji Linchuan was eighteen, a timid young girl came to live with his family.

She had beautiful brows, eyes that seemed to hold starlight, and a faint beauty mark at the corner of one eye.

Then Ji Linchuan learned her name: Bai Li.

She would always sneak glances at him from the shadows, but never said a word. When the power went out, she'd tug at his sleeve and softly call him "Big Brother, I'm scared."

One evening, he came home from playing basketball and ran into Bai Li at the door.

They collided without warning and ended up in each other's arms.

The girl's cheeks were flushed, her eyes hazy, as if she'd had too much to drink. She looked up at him, then quickly lowered her gaze.

Ji Linchuan curled his lips into a smile, his close-cropped hair damp and dark. His black eyes held a casual, teasing glint. "Do you have a crush on Big Brother?"

On the day the girl confessed, Ji Linchuan pierced the last layer of her defenses with a few cutting words and watched her flee, clutching her shattered heart.

He thought he didn't care, that she wasn't all that important to him.

But after she went abroad for a year, Ji Linchuan finally understood.

Some feelings only become a poison that seeps into your bones long afterward.

Theme: Live life with positivity