No Questions North or South

[A crush is like setting off in a hurry, with no direction and no sense of north or south.]

Ye Zhinan never expected to reach above her station and win Song Qingbei's heart.

Back then, he was always at the top of the school exam honor roll. His goal since childhood was just like his name: getting into Qingbei.

And she had always been the most unremarkable person in the crowd.

That summer, Song Qingbei got into Tsinghua, just as he'd hoped. Ye Zhinan missed the university application deadline and chose to stay at school and repeat her final year.

That day, she wrote down her plans for the new semester on a note on her desk:

* Cut my hair short

* Get into Zhejiang University

* Stop liking... Song Qingbei

But things didn't go as planned. An accident broke her leg and ruined the rest of her life.

Just then, Song Qingbei came back.

He took a leave from school, got a job, and carried her up and down the stairs, holding her life together.

The accident had happened because of Song Qingbei's father.

Song Qingbei looked at her as if she were a pitiful little puppy and offered her his pity. "I'll be your family from now on. I'll take care of you for the rest of your life."

But Ye Zhinan didn't want that kind of life with him, so after submitting her university applications, she chose to leave.

They met again six years later, in summer. A super typhoon made landfall, and rain poured down as Ye Zhinan rode her electric scooter home from work and crashed into a luxury car.

Song Qingbei got out and held an umbrella over her.

Ye Zhinan's nose stung as she remembered how, back then, he had been the umbrella over her head. No matter how hard the wind and rain blew, he shielded her from it all.

That night, her rental apartment door was pounded so hard it shook the walls.

Worried about disturbing the neighbors, Ye Zhinan had no choice but to steel herself and open the door.

Song Qingbei was soaked through. The moment he stepped inside, he pounced on her like a hungry wolf.

"Song Qingbei! Let go of me! I can hardly breathe!"

"Endure it."

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Later, they woke up in the same bed.

The sky outside was dark with clouds. She got up to grab a bottle of water, but he pulled her roughly into his arms.

Song Qingbei's eyes were red, and he looked as wronged as a little puppy.

"Ye Zhinan, this time... could you please not leave?"

"Ye Zhinan, don't leave me behind again."

Crush turned requited, second-chance romance, both leads are each other's first love and have no prior sexual experience

Title and blurb written on 2025.7.11, with an email record for proof. Don't steal them.

P.S. The luxury car doesn't belong to the male lead. He's a working stiff too. The first half is small-town fiction, and the second half is urban rental-apartment fiction.

Theme: Don't worry, there will always be someone in this world who loves you.