Say Goodnight Like You Did Yesterday

[Complete, currently undergoing a thorough edit]

Reunion after years apart / Mutual secret crushes / Healing

[Next up: "Hard to Escape" or "She Is an Uncatchable Dream"]

[Recommended: My good friend's novel, "Love After Marriage"]

"That summer, you left a damp rainstorm in my heart."

Nan Yi once secretly liked someone.

He was dazzling and carefree, bold and brash, the most talked-about boy in school.

On the summer basketball court, the boy flicked his wrist and sank a three-pointer, sending countless girls into a frenzy.

By comparison, Nan Yi was quiet and obedient, an unremarkable good girl in the crowd.

The boldest thing she ever did was on a night when fireworks filled the sky.

Xu Yao stood beside her. As fireworks burst overhead, their long shadows stretched across the ground.

Nan Yi edged a little closer, letting their shadows' hands "hold" each other.

*

Nan Yi had always carefully kept her feelings hidden in her heart.

Until the day Xu Yao transferred schools. While their classmates said goodbye to him, she hid in a corner, quietly fighting back tears.

Xu Yao walked up to her, bent down to meet her eyes, and smiled. "Why are you crying? It's not like we'll never see each other again."

"Don't forget to say good night to me."

She remembered that teasing farewell for five years.

From the end of the college entrance exams until graduation, every night she carefully typed four characters into her phone: "Good night, Xu Yao."

But there was never a reply.

She thought he'd forgotten all about her long ago.

Until one night, years later, when rain poured down in torrents.

A flurry of urgent knocks sounded at the door.

Nan Yi opened it.

Xu Yao's black hair was soaked through. Leaning one hand against the doorframe, he looked exhausted. "I can't sleep."

"What I mean is, you haven't said good night to me in a long time."

*

To Xu Yao, Nan Yi was pure and well-behaved, like the purest moon, untouchable by anyone.

Not even him.

Until, years later, after they had parted and met again, he watched her from the shadows as she went on one blind date after another.

"I can love a flower without plucking it."

Countless nights, Xu Yao tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

He thought, he had to pluck this flower himself.

Rebellious school bully vs. obedient top student

Immature troublemaker vs. little ray of sunshine

Cocky guy vs. sweet girl

School life in the first half, city life later

Mutual secret crushes, with the guy pursuing the girl after their reunion

The main characters have no intimate contact before they reach adulthood. Their high school years focus on studying.

Note: The reason the male lead didn't reply to her messages is revealed in the story. He wasn't doing it on purpose.

The title was inspired by a song by Lovelyz.

Author's Weibo: @TodayIJustMadeAnotherHundredMillion

Theme: Love means becoming better for each other