Yesterday's Love Letter

Now available in print. @ Jiang Yanci Is Sleeping Again | Coming soon: "Chronic Hypoxia" and "No Man's Land" (unrequited-love stories of the same type)

In early summer 2009, Qiao Siyue moved with her parents to Minggang Town, where she met Lin Yusi.

Back then, the boy was dazzling, while she was like a cloud drifting around the moon, sensitive and insecure.

In her senior year of high school, Qiao Siyue finally worked up the courage to send the love letter she'd kept hidden in her drawer for so long.

The day before early autumn arrived, she still hadn't received an answer from Lin Yusi. Instead, she found her letter tossed in the trash.

The cicadas fell silent.

With that summer, Qiao Siyue's secret crush became a love that had never come to fruition.

-

Years later, Qiao Siyue and Lin Yusi ran into each other unexpectedly.

This time, Qiao Siyue chose to avoid him, while Lin Yusi acted as if he had completely forgotten the letter he'd thrown away, treating her with easy familiarity and affection.

She took a step back, and he moved a meter closer.

With nowhere left to retreat, Qiao Siyue gritted her teeth and asked, "What exactly are you trying to do?"

A thin layer of frost settled in Lin Yusi's eyes as he tossed the question back at her. "Then why are you running?"

-

She is my weakness, and my armor.

--Lin Yusi

"The night is gentle / Many summers later, you still wait for me / And this / This will be the last time I save you"

-Comic artist x firefighter | Bittersweet | Slow burn | Unrequited love becomes mutual | Happy ending

-School life + city life | One-sided to mutual | Both each other's first love

-The male lead did not throw away the letter (there is a misunderstanding)

-The final quote in the blurb is from Zhang Zao's "Inscription"

--"Chronic Hypoxia"--

When Xia Ran was fourteen, she moved in with her mother and stepfather, and gained a lifelong nemesis: her nominal older brother, Jin Sirang.

She couldn't stand his false aloofness, and he looked down on her vulgarity and ignorance.

He hated it when she called him "brother," so she kept provoking him with it, again and again.

Xia Ran remembers exactly when Jin Sirang began to accept that title.

It was after they slept together for the first time.

After that, she rarely called him brother.

She loved Jin Sirang, so she couldn't bear to make him angry or sad again. But in the end, she was still the one who hurt him most.

-

Jin Sirang thought he would never fall for Xia Ran in this lifetime.

But he was the first to lose his heart.

After they reunited, he kept reminding himself in self-deception that this time, he had the upper hand.

-

"Why did you open a bookstore?"

"Because you used to make fun of me for being vulgar."

"I'm the vulgar one." A dark, suggestive look entered Jin Sirang's eyes as he pressed her hand against the cold silver buckle of his belt. "For years, whenever I thought of you at night, this is how I've gotten by."

-We are all guiltless madmen, transgressing the rules that confine us, defying the world and clinging to each other until death.

Bad girl x aloof beauty | Bookshop owner x forensic pathologist | Nonlinear storytelling | Happy ending | Both each other's first

1. Their relationship begins when they are adults.

2. He is only her brother in name; they are not legally related.

Theme: Love is a kind of faith, and so is having a secret crush.