A Heartbeat That Tastes Like Milk Candy

[1]

Before the second-year high school class reshuffle, Shi Xi learns who her new desk mate will be.

She hasn't met him yet, but she's heard all about him.

He's definitely handsome, but his temper is awful. When he gets into a fight, he hits hard. Even the toughest boys at school don't dare provoke him lightly.

Looking at Shi Xi's sweet, innocent face, like everyone's first love, her friend can't help worrying.

Isn't this like tossing a little lamb into a wolf's den? And not just any wolf, but the fiercest wolf cub of all!

Later, when the two get together, everyone is stunned.

Her friend is especially worried. "His temper's so bad, and he's so fierce. Has he been bullying you?"

Shi Xi's little face turns bright red, and she doesn't know how to answer.

He's really nice to her, and he's not fierce.

But as for bullying her... well, he really has done it quite a lot. QAQ

[2]

Gu Chi first sees Shi Xi in the autumn of his first year of high school, one evening after class.

He doesn't see her face, only her back.

The girl sits at the piano, dressed in a white school uniform, her waist slender.

The nape of her neck is as white as snow.

She has an unbelievably pure air about her, and he's heard she's top of her year.

At a glance, he knows she's nothing like him.

For many nights afterward, that silhouette keeps appearing in his dreams, leaving him restless and uneasy.

He curls his lips in mockery. He must be fucking crazy.

[3]

Later on,

The girl sits beside him, her features gentle, a pair of faint dimples appearing when she smiles.

At last, the silhouette in his dreams has a face.

"..."

This sickness is terminal. There'll never be a cure.

*Both are each other's first love

Sweet, sunny girl who feels like everyone's first love vs. a bad-tempered, fierce boy

Next up: "Love Addiction"

[1]

The Yu and Jiang families have been close for generations.

Yu Wan has played with Jiang Che since childhood, following him around and sweetly calling him "big brother."

They look good together, so their elders arrange their engagement early.

Even her best friend teases them: "Your childhood-sweetheart romance is even sweeter than going from school uniforms to wedding dresses."

Yu Wan blushes and says nothing, but she's secretly happy too.

Until she turns nineteen.

Jiang Che meets a girl.

The girl comes from a poor family, but she's independent and determined. She has a cool, distant beauty, and her personality is just as aloof.

Jiang Che falls in love with her at first sight.

[2]

Jiang Che gets word that Yu Wan has been in a car accident and rushes to the hospital.

In the hospital bed, the girl looks pale, watching him with an unfamiliar, guarded gaze.

Beneath the oversized hospital gown, her small hands clutch his cousin Jiang Lie's sleeve. Uneasily, she asks

"Big Brother Jiang, who is he?"

The next moment, Jiang Che watches his cousin, a man who has become increasingly ruthless in business over the past two years, gently place a hand on the girl's head.

He strokes it and says in a low, gentle voice, "No one important. I'll have him leave right away."

Jiang Che: ???

At a banquet later on,

Jiang Che watches Yu Wan from beginning to end as she takes his older brother's arm, her almond-shaped eyes curving as she smiles sweetly and warmly.

There's an unmistakable intimacy between them.

He regrets it. Jealousy drives him mad.

Before the banquet is over, he pulls her outside.

"Wanwan."

His eyes are red as he says those two syllables.

He doesn't get to say anything more before Jiang Lie appears.

With an unmistakably possessive air, the man pulls the girl into his arms. His lips curve into a smile, but his gaze is cold.

"Learn some manners. It's time to call her sister-in-law."

[3]

Jiang Lie is brought back to the Jiang family when he's fifteen.

An illegitimate son, with an injured ear that leaves him half deaf,

he's mocked by even the household servants.

But there's one silly girl who isn't intimidated by his coldness. She takes off her scarf, rises on tiptoe, and wraps it around his neck.

Her eyes are bright with laughter, and her voice is soft. "It's cold. You have a fever, so you need to wear something warm."

Sweet, gentle, healing girl vs. a ruthless, cold boy

Both are each other's first love; childhood sweethearts for half their lives; a sweet romance

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