A Stolen Kiss, A Fluttering Heart

[Complete. Childhood sweethearts.]

Lu Yu and Lin Suian first met outside their homes. The little girl wore a floral dress and happily followed her parents as they moved in. Her soft, cute face was always smiling, and she looked kind of silly.

Later, they became neighbors.

Lu Yu's mother liked the little girl very much and told Lu Yu to look after her.

At the time, the boy's attention was entirely on video games, and he agreed absentmindedly.

The little girl wasn't very bright and was easy to fool, so that one act of looking after her continued for more than ten years.

One day, the little girl learned that her parents had finally divorced. She crouched in the corner by her house and murmured sadly, "I don't have a mom or dad anymore."

Lu Yu walked over, rubbed her hair, and said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid. You still have me."

Later, the little girl won an international award for her sand art diary, The Silly Bear, and received a deal to promote it as a film and television IP. During an interview, a reporter asked whether the characters in her comic were based on real people.

By then, the little girl had grown into an elegant young woman. She spotted the man standing at the back of the crowd, who had rearranged his meetings just to come. Her eyes slowly curved into a smile, and starlight shone in her clear, captivating gaze.

"Yes."

[You are the starlight of my world, dispelling the haze. When I looked up, I saw the moon.]

[Mathematics competition ace x adorable art student]

*A warm, everyday childhood-sweethearts romance.

Advance reservation novel, Tenderly Licking Your Bones: Blurb

In high school, Luo Huan had a secret crush on a boy with delicate, beautiful features and a cold, distant personality. He had few friends, his school uniform was always spotless but washed pale, and his slender body was covered in cuts and bruises of every size.

And yet his grades were unbelievably good. He was the most unusual student at Dechuan High School.

No one knew that he was always beaten half to death. No one knew that in a dark, filthy alley, Luo Huan gently tended to his wounds every night.

Her soft breath brushed over every inch of his skin.

One day, the boy could no longer hold back. He gripped her chin and sternly warned her to stay away from him.

The girl was pinned against the wall, her lashes fluttering, a smear of bright red blood at the corner of her mouth. She lifted her face and smiled at him, her clear, limpid eyes naturally fearless. "I won't."

Luo Huan watched the ice in his features slowly melt.

But that summer, after their second year of high school, he disappeared without warning.

Luo Huan buried all her heartbeats and anguish in that summer.

Later, Luo Huan became the most dazzling goddess in the dance department at Jiangbei University, shining on the international stage. But because she was still single, her roommates teased her and called her "little nun."

During her junior year, shortly before finals, the two departments held a social event. The oblivious vice principal warmly introduced them. "This is Jiang Zhihan, an exchange student from the computer science department next door. You should get to know each other."

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Luo Huan reached out with easy grace. Her beautiful eyes were calm, without a trace of emotion. "Hello."

Jiang Zhihan's eyes turned red.

That very night, the drunken young man blocked Luo Huan in the hallway.

His eyes were bloodshot, but he carefully pulled her into his arms. His voice was slightly hoarse. "Huanhuan, don't you remember me?"

*Sweet, gentle girl x gloomy, aloof, prickly boy

*A heartwarming, healing story

*From high school to university to adulthood

Theme: Growth