Love, Hinted at in the Dark

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Pre-release: Tonight Will Come. Give it a click! A boy has loved her in secret for years, keeping his feelings buried.

Blurb:

No dating in high school.

At the start of the second semester of her freshman year, Ming Ying's roommates, whom she hadn't seen in ages, were all in high spirits. They dragged her into a dorm game of "Guess What Girls Are Thinking."

When the soda bottle pointed at Ming Ying, she lowered her head, propped her chin on her hand, and stared blankly at the glass bottle.

"Ming Ying, there's a guy you've liked for a long time, right?"

"He doesn't know, does he?"

Every guess hit the mark. Ming Ying picked up the lemon juice on the table and gulped it down. It was so sour her jaw nearly fell off. Then she murmured, "It's just as bittersweet as my girlish feelings."

When a transfer student first arrived at Shengyang No. 1 High School, one saying could be heard in every corner.

Brother Hui, tireless in teaching others.

After being repeated for so long, the saying got garbled and eventually became: Brother Hui, tireless in ruining others.

In truth, this supposedly ruinous Brother Hui hadn't done much. In his freshman year, he'd gotten into a fight with a notorious troublemaker and won. Afterwards, he'd looked utterly disdainful and said, "Get some practice when you've got time. Don't go around embarrassing yourself, damn it."

Ming Ying had run into Xu Hui being confessed to several times. She never imagined that one day he'd say to her, "Be my girlfriend."

She also never imagined that those words, and his sudden interest in her, were all because of a bet.

"It was just a bet, a bit of fun. Taking it seriously ruins the fun."

Xu Hui's languid voice echoed through the gym.

Ming Ying felt as if something hard had struck her heart. She decided to bury her feelings and focus on her college entrance exams.

By the time graduation came around, everyone at school was saying that Huo Xichen, the perennial runner-up, had fallen for Ming Ying, the top student, and was pursuing her with all he'd got.

The rumors reached Xu Hui too. He clenched his teeth, kept quiet, and seethed with rage.

"I heard they agreed to choose their colleges together. On the way to walk her home, Huo Xichen plans to confess."

"What a dog."

After hearing that, Xu Hui could no longer keep his legs crossed. He stood up, his palms sweating.

He was nervous.

At midnight on the day they were supposed to submit their college choices, Xu Hui rushed to the building where Ming Ying lived and stood there for eleven whole hours. When he heard footsteps, he gripped the doorframe tightly, his face dark. "If I don't let you go, can you still leave?"

Ming Ying drooped her head and asked indifferently, "What exactly do you want?"

Xu Hui chuckled. "Did you get sick of me that quickly, sweetheart? Have your standards dropped?"

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Pre-release: Tonight Will Come

On the Little Princess's fifteenth birthday, the Kang family held a grand celebration.

During the party, someone asked how the Kang family's little princess got her name. The most dazzling girl in the room smiled sweetly. "Fifteen years ago today, everything was auspicious."

That night, terrible news arrived. The once-beloved little princess fell into the abyss in a single day.

The day she moved into the Fu family's home, Kang Jinyi calmly hid all her feelings away. She knew she was about to live at someone else's mercy.

Fu Yaze, the Fu family's only son, was naturally taciturn. When he first saw Kang Jinyi, he managed a faint smile and said nothing, merely nodding in greeting.

He didn't even spare her suitcase a glance before turning and heading back to his room.

Kang Jinyi decided that Fu Yaze was difficult and impossible to get along with, and kept her distance. Yet one day, in a moment of madness, she clung to his arm and refused to let go, stubbornly lifting her little face. "No one loves me anymore, Kang Jinyi."

"Will you love me, Fu Yaze?"

The boy fell silent for a moment. His unfocused gaze wandered away from the girl before him, and he pushed her hand away. "You're talking nonsense."

It was the first time Kang Jinyi had ever been rejected. That night, she went a little crazy and temporarily forgot all about it.

Then, in a classroom that suddenly lost power, the crowd surged around her. Kang Jinyi, who had always been afraid of the dark, shrank in on herself.

Then someone took her hand with unerring precision and pulled her into his arms. His voice was low. "Don't be afraid. I'm here."

Kang Jinyi heard a heart pounding wildly, but it wasn't her own.

Many years later, Fu Yaze's diary was accidentally discovered.

- When you're clear-headed, will you still ask me that? I'm curious.

- The men around her have all been "assassinated" by me.

- Oh no, I'm too close. She's going to find out.

- I have her now!!!!!

She no longer fears the dead silence and darkness openly, because she knows that tonight will come, and you'll be by her side.

Theme: Love life, love yourself