Kicking the Moon Away

*The outline was cut short due to the subject matter. Strongly advised not to read.

Cold scumbag x world-weary girl

1.

At fourteen, Yu Le fell in love with someone.

She chewed the secret to pieces and swallowed it, burying it in the long river of her anguished yet all-consuming crush.

She hid her feelings for years, confident that the other person had never noticed. But one day, as she happened to pass an alley, she saw this:

Mo Zichuan lightly twirled a cigarette between his fingers. With his other hand, he pinned against the wall the person who had harassed him repeatedly. His voice was flat.

"Has she still not beaten some sense into you?"

Yu Le stiffened slightly. It took her a long moment to make sense of what she had heard, and then the man's voice rang out again.

"I'll tell you the truth." He pressed the cigarette beside the boy's ear, his manner nonchalant. "That kid only has eyes for me."

2.

One day after Mo Zichuan rejected her, Yu Le was pressed by a junior student to explain her relationship with him.

"He's my older brother," Yu Le said with a kind smile, her tone utterly unconcerned. "We grew up together, so we're close."

The junior student looked enlightened, his ears turning red as he thanked her. He watched Yu Le leave, then turned and came face-to-face with the man's dark eyes.

"He's not my biological brother, and we're not legally related," Mo Zichuan said calmly. "I study law. I wouldn't lie to you."

Theme: Love and being loved