[Blurb to be revised, same premise]
Xiang Cha was hit by a car on her way to school and injured her leg. With no one to rely on, she was forced to live with the person who hit her.
Chen Xie took care of her meticulously.
Xiang Cha fell for him.
The day her leg healed, she stood at the door with her suitcase and confessed her feelings to him.
The door slammed shut in her face, leaving Chen Xie's faintly scornful expression on the other side. He was nothing like the gentle man she'd known.
"You're crazy."
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In the finale preview for a wildly popular reality dating show, Chen Xie, a famous illustrator, made his final call to Xiang Cha, a gentle, introverted vlogger, leaving viewers across the country stunned.
They'd barely exchanged any messages before and had never gone on a date together. Weibo immediately erupted with accusations of deceptive editing and a scripted scam.
When the full episode aired, the scene was just as explosive.
After taking the call, Xiang Cha, usually sweet, shy, and soft-spoken, didn't even blush. Her tone was colder than anyone had ever heard.
"You're crazy."
She hung up.
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Later, someone dug up the car accident from back then, and all the show's unresolved storylines suddenly seemed to make sense.
But as cream and ice melted, time reversed and space folded back on itself. They still had to shelter together beneath a cafe awning in the pouring rain, flee toward the end of a pitch-black alley in a painting, and elope to the empty depths of the sea.
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"Sweet, soft good girl x a refined mad dog who's actually crazy"
* Mutual pining! Mutual pining!
* The male lead has a mental illness at first, but recovers later. The illness is fictionalized.
* Happy ending, one-on-one romance, both leads' first time, five-year age gap
2021.6.26
Theme: Stop acting crazy for no reason