Secret Crush Password [Campus]

On the first day Jiang Jian returned to her senior year of high school, she ran into Zhou Chengji, whom she'd had a crush on for years.

He was a legendary campus heartthrob. One photo of him had once swept across the school's confession board, earning him three thousand fangirls. Yet he was cool and distant, keeping everyone at arm's length. A single glance was enough to turn away every admirer. He was known as a moon you could see but never touch.

Jiang Jian never dared hope to have the moon to herself. She carefully kept her girlish feelings hidden.

But her love kept growing until, one day, an unexpected turn of events made her blurt out a confession.

Zhou Chengji fell silent for a long time, so long that Jiang Jian's heart sank little by little. Then he said:

“Baby, did you really not know I liked you? I've told you those three words countless times already.”

Jiang Jian: ?

When?

Wait.

Then Jiang Jian suddenly remembered.

The strange note in the Four Rams Fangzun vessel Zhou Chengji gave her at the start of term, the impossibly advanced math problems he passed her in class, the unfamiliar symbols he'd drawn on her test papers...

A young man's deep affection was half hidden in the corners of his eyes, darting away before she could catch his gaze, and half encoded in every story connected to her.

Mutual pining ℓ one-sided salvation ℓ sweet-and-sour everyday campus life

Reader's guide:

1. Both leads are adults. 1v1 happy ending, with a side couple who won't take up much space, and a slight ensemble cast.

2. She returned to her senior year because she was repeating it, not because she was reborn.

3. All place and school names in the story are fictional, with no real-life counterparts. Please don't read into them.

Hope you enjoy the story!

Theme: When you focus on working hard, good things will fall from the sky