Kissing the Apricot

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After Chu Xing realized she had fallen for Jin Yanzhou, she went straight to him and confessed. "Jin Yanzhou, I like you. If you like me too, come over and give me a hug."

Jin Yanzhou said, "Who wants to hug you?" As he spoke, he had already walked up to her and bent down to kiss her lips.

I like you even more than I like you.

A sweet, clueless girl who wears her heart on her sleeve × an arrogant, childish young master

· College campus // first love for both, both virgins, one-on-one romance

[Cover character designs are from Jiu Xiang Cun - Wu Zhen]

Blurb revised on 2021.07.16, screenshot archived.

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1. The first time Cheng Zhi met Lin Dongxu was at Hetan Temple.

Lin Dongxu had shaved his head and was wearing a robe just like the temple's senior monks.

Cheng Zhi, who had come to burn incense and pray for a talisman, walked up to him and politely said, "Master..."

Lin Dongxu said, "I'm dying. Leave me alone."

Cheng Zhi thought, "This monk is so gloomy."

Soon, the two met again in a cancer support group.

Lin Dongxu was a cancer patient, and Cheng Zhi was the volunteer assigned to him.

Faced with Lin Dongxu, who was passively waiting to die, Cheng Zhi insisted on making him draw up a bucket list and vowed to help him fulfill every last wish.

But the deadline of those final few months arrived.

Cheng Zhi stared at the very much alive Lin Dongxu in front of her and asked in stunned surprise, "Are you a person or a ghost?"

Lin Dongxu said, "What if I told you I could live for another few decades...?"

Cheng Zhi: "?"

Lin Dongxu said, "Would you be willing to date me, marry me, and spend your life with me?"

Cheng Zhi: "???"

2. Cheng Zhi and Chen Zhouliang were childhood friends who grew up together.

In her second year of high school, Cheng Zhi realized she had fallen for Chen Zhouliang, but she didn't dare let it show, because Chen Zhouliang only saw her as one of the guys.

Not until after graduating from college did Cheng Zhi summon all the courage she had and pretend to joke as she told him, "Chen Zhouliang, if we're both still single and unmarried when we're thirty, I'll marry you."

Chen Zhouliang smiled and replied, "Sure."

Over the next few years, Chen Zhouliang acted just as he always had, as though he still saw her only as his best buddy. When someone pursued her, he wished her well. When someone pursued him, he shared the news with her right away.

Cheng Zhi couldn't sense even the slightest affection from him.

At last, when Cheng Zhi was twenty-eight, she finally let go of the boy she had quietly loved for more than a decade.

She fell in love with a man who loved her without reservation.

When he appeared, the bitter winter in her world passed, and the ice and snow melted away.

· The male lead was misdiagnosed.

· A wealthy tycoon who is terrified of dying × a brave, optimistic ray of sunshine

· CEO × screenwriter

· The heroine liked her childhood friend, the supporting male character, before she got together with the hero, but they never dated.

· More or less a story where the hero who appears out of nowhere beats the childhood friend.

Themes: 1. Strive to become better, so I can stand by your side. 2. Be brave for love, and cherish the present.