Burning Wild

Xu Chu was from the south, with fair skin, a beautiful face, a soft voice, and a sweet, well-behaved manner.

Ran Ye was a blazing fire, flaunting his good looks and confidence, the center of attention wherever he went.

They were like two parallel lines.

One day, a fight broke out at school. From a distance, Xu Chu saw the dean reprimanding Ran Ye outside the classroom. "Tell me, why did you hit him?"

"Why?" Ran Ye tilted his head. His earring glinted beneath his short black hair as he drawled, "He looked like a punching bag."

Their classmates whispered, "Who'd dare mess with Ran Ye? He must have done something unforgivable."

Only then did Xu Chu realize that the boy who'd been beaten had made a lewd comment to her not long before.

At first, when Xu Chu moved in with the Ran family, Ran Ye took great pleasure in ordering her around. "Good student, get me a popsicle."

Xu Chu: "..."

Later, in a narrow alley, students from No. 3 High School blocked the boys from Gezhi Private High School and demanded a fight.

Ran Ye suddenly got a message from Xu Chu.

[When are you coming back? Can you bring me an ice cream?]

He suddenly snorted. "I'm not fighting you."

Everyone: "?"

The boy deliberately waved his phone around, enlarging the message. "You guys fight all the time. Must be because nobody's waiting for you at home."

"Oh, how sad."

The students from No. 3 High School: "..." Now they had no choice but to fight.

Not long after, Ran Ye came back carrying a bag of ice cream, his fingers wrapped in gauze.

Xu Chu stared. "What happened?"

Ran Ye: "Nothing. I ran into a pack of dogs on the way."

He emphasized, "Single dogs."

Xu Chu: "..."

At the graduation banquet, a girl got hopelessly drunk and searched everywhere for Ran Ye, wanting to confess to him.

In the stairwell, Xu Chu leaned against the wall while the boy who had caused all the commotion outside braced one hand beside her head.

The temperature rose, like a faint spark suddenly setting the whole world ablaze.

They were kissing in secret.

Xu Chu could almost hear a clear, thumping sound.

She didn't know whose heartbeat it was.

She gently clutched the hem of his shirt.

She'd never imagined a boy would come crashing into her world carrying such passionate love.

At the school's hundred-day countdown ceremony, Yu Chen took the stage to speak as an outstanding student representative and student council president.

He lowered his eyes to adjust the microphone. In the sunlight, his features were as exquisitely handsome and flawless as a sculpture carved from white jade.

Below the stage, countless girls were talking about him.

Without question, he was the most dazzling person in the crowd.

Jiang Xiaoqiao was nothing like him. She'd never spoken to him of her own accord, and even when she added him as a friend, she only dared to use her alternate account.

But that night, she summoned every last bit of courage she had and posted on her alternate account: [When the college entrance exams are over, I'm going to confess to Yu Chen at the observation tower.]

Yu Chen was the only person on her alternate account's friends list.

But Jiang Xiaoqiao knew he wouldn't see it. So many people had confessed to him before, and her post was just one insignificant message among thousands.

Then, on the day the college entrance exams ended, her alternate account, with no active chats, suddenly received a new message:

[I'm at the observation tower. What about you?]

Theme: Only by treating others sincerely can you receive the same affection in return