I’ve Had My Eye on You for a Long Time

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Blurb:

Lin Ran was expelled from school after getting into fights one too many times. The day before transferring to a new school, he was forced to save a ridiculously handsome guy. But that guy cost him a huge sum of money, and Lin Ran was heartbroken over the loss. He vowed to get it back.

That very night, Lin Ran saw the handsome guy again at his grandmother's convenience store.

Jiang Ye had a cigarette between his lips as he raised an eyebrow at Lin Ran. "Shall we get acquainted?"

Clutching the huge sum he'd just gotten back, Lin Ran refused. "No need. I'm a good student."

But the next day, when Lin Ran arrived in his new class, there was the same handsome guy who'd been smoking and raising his eyebrow at him the night before.

This had to be some kind of cursed fate.

"A good student?" Jiang Ye asked gleefully, looking at Lin Ran, who'd been assigned to sit beside him.

Lin Ran glared at him. "I am a good student. I'm first in my grade."

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow. "What a coincidence. So am I."

On their very first day together, Jiang Ye kept pushing all of Lin Ran's buttons. If Lin Ran hadn't sworn again and again that he wouldn't fight anymore, his fist would have landed on Jiang Ye's face already.

Later, after learning everything about Jiang Ye, Lin Ran vowed to treat him well.

What Lin Ran didn't know was that Jiang Ye had been thinking about him for a long time. Lin Ran had long been the warm light shining into Jiang Ye's heart, accompanying him through those endless days of darkness.

One evening after study hall, Jiang Ye suddenly hugged Lin Ran in the dark stairwell and said hoarsely, "A-Ran, I hope you'll always be good to me."

Lin Ran hugged him back, his heart melting. "I'll always be good to you."

"Then can I stay at your house tonight?"

"..." Lin Ran couldn't shake the feeling that Jiang Ye had played him.

Blurb for *My Rival's Eyes Look Different When He Sees Me [Reborn]*:

Before he was reborn, Su Ge's family went bankrupt. His father went to prison, his mother was hospitalized, and his older brother was too busy running around asking for help to pay him any attention.

After Su Ge was kidnapped, the person who came to save him was none other than his rival in love, Sheng Xingjian.

Covered in injuries, Sheng Xingjian fled through the pouring rain with him. Su Ge accidentally stepped into thin air and fell into the icy river.

"No! Sheng Xingjian!" Su Ge watched helplessly as Sheng Xingjian jumped into the rushing river after him.

Before he lost consciousness completely, Su Ge felt the strength of Sheng Xingjian's arm around him and the tenderness of a touch against his cheek.

Su Ge was reborn. He returned to three years earlier, the first day of his senior year of high school.

Before his rebirth, the girl he liked had a crush on Sheng Xingjian, so he secretly regarded Sheng Xingjian as a rival and never treated him kindly. He even tried to trip him up behind his back.

After being reborn, Su Ge decided not to be Sheng Xingjian's enemy. He began taking his side at every turn, and gradually realized that Sheng Xingjian's eyes looked different when he looked at him.

Su Ge plays basketball, and Sheng Xingjian brings him water. Su Ge skips class, and Sheng Xingjian covers for him. Su Ge has a stomachache, and Sheng Xingjian feeds him. Su Ge gets scolded, and Sheng Xingjian writes his apology letter.

The only time Sheng Xingjian looks hurt is when the girl Su Ge used to like asks him out. Su Ge inexplicably feels guilty and promptly turns her down.

Wait a minute, isn't something off about this plot? Su Ge remembers that in his previous life, Sheng Xingjian never came near him. They were strangers for years. So why is Sheng Xingjian everywhere now? And how did the aloof top student he knew turn out to be an insincere schemer who pretends to be honest and pitiful, but is actually manipulative and shameless?

Sheng Xingjian takes Su Ge's hand and asks plaintively, "Is there something wrong with me? I can change, but this time, I absolutely won't let go again."

Shocked but overjoyed, Su Ge asks, "Does a good student want to start dating early, too?"

Sheng Xingjian replies, "It's not early. I've loved you for years."

...I missed my chance once and regretted it bitterly. So this confession, late as it may be, is one I have to say to you.

Theme: Only after enduring countless hardships can you find happiness and a future