Surrender

The day she got drunk, she made a bet with someone about whether Shen Yaowen would agree to date her. With alcohol clouding her judgment, she accepted the challenge.

By the restroom, she spotted Shen Yaowen waiting for someone. She didn't know who he was waiting for. Stumbling over, she stopped in front of him and looked at him:

"Do you... want to be my boyfriend?"

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She schemed carefully to lure him in, thinking she would become someone special to him. But in the end, she still lost to the tulip in his heart.

On the day they broke up, Shen Yaowen ran all over Jingzhou to buy her breakfast.

He thought they could put it all behind them, but the wind died down, and their story ended that day too.

That morning, when He Zhiyi's disappointment reached its limit. That morning, when Shen Yaowen refused to set aside his pride and hold her.

He denied countless times that he liked He Zhiyi. But in the first year after she left, the moment he received her letter, he finally understood: those feelings that had kept welling up in him were love.

No one had ever told him what it was like to love someone. So by the time he realized it, the person he loved had already left him.

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When she saw Shen Yaowen again later, she didn't blush like they did in books, nor did her face turn red. She just felt her heart skip a beat when she saw him, just as it had when she first met him as a girl.

After they stepped out of the elevator, a coworker asked her, "Wasn't that the man who came looking for you that night? Why didn't you say hello?"

"We're not that close," He Zhiyi replied coolly.

So later, when He Zhiyi was pinned against a wall and he demanded, "We're not close?"

Her family arranged a blind date for her. She sat waiting in a cafe, never expecting Shen Yaowen to be the one who showed up.

That proud young man spoke almost pleadingly. "Would you consider giving me a chance? I don't even mind being your backup."

Only then did she realize:

Shen Yaowen could lower his head too. The Shen Yaowen who was always surrounded by different girls could also know the pain of loving someone who didn't love him back.

But He Zhiyi no longer dared to dream of becoming that special tulip.

//: I'll put myself in the game and win you over, step by step., He Zhiyi

//: Ex-girlfriend, could you love me one more time?, Shen Yaowen

※Content note※ Shen Yaowen has a long romantic history.

//: The tenth draft of the blurb was finalized on 2025/03/14. Screenshot saved.

//: Weibo: @JingGeXiaoBaiLan

Theme: Stay passionate forever, and love romantically until the end of time