A Short-Lived First Love

Also known as Falling in Love with My Unrequited Crush

When Chu Xingmang runs into Jiang Jingyi again at A University, he's in the middle of fighting their rivals alongside his basketball teammates.

Jiang Jingyi's surprise is impossible to hide.

Chu Xingmang wants to vanish into the ground. How could he be so! fierce! in front of the person he likes?

The second time they meet at A University, it's at the basketball court again. Jiang Jingyi misses a three-pointer, and Chu Xingmang blurts out, "You're so bad!"

Unfortunately, the person he's talking about hears him.

Chu Xingmang: If you ask me, I really want to dig a hole and bury myself in it.

Later, Jiang Jingyi comes looking for him, and he stammers out an explanation. "I didn't mean you were bad at basketball. I meant you're so… hot!"

Jiang Jingyi clearly doesn't believe him. He stares intently at Chu Xingmang and says, "You'll find out just how bad I am later."

The third time they meet at the basketball court, Chu Xingmang plans to avoid Jiang Jingyi, but Jiang calls him over.

"Could you do me a favor? Be my boyfriend. Not for long, just three months."

Chu Xingmang thinks he's dreaming and agrees in a daze.

Over the next three months, Jiang Jingyi goes to class with him, takes him out to eat, and even makes a note of his likes in his phone.

Everything seems no different from a real relationship.

But the closer the three-month deadline gets, the more uneasy Chu Xingmang feels. They're worlds apart from a real couple.

What he's experiencing is just a bubble that could be popped with a single touch.

Finally, he decides to make the first move and confess before they break up.

"Bonus scene"

One day, a student posts on the campus forum asking, "How can I make Chu Xingmang my boyfriend?"

The post attracts countless replies and soon gets bumped to the top of the page.

[Chu Xingmang? He could be the boyfriend of any hand-drawn picture or modeling software, but he'd never be your boyfriend.]

[An architecture major's boyfriend has no time for you. Why not consider me instead, OP?]

Those two replies get plenty of likes, but neither can compete with one posted two hours later.

[Jiang Jingyi: Chu Xingmang is mine. Don't get any ideas.]

The forum instantly erupts. Who doesn't recognize the campus heartthrob Jiang Jingyi's ID?

The famously aloof beauty of A University! His account must have been hacked!

Someone tell them how these two, who seemed to have nothing to do with each other, became a couple?!

[Before You Read]

1. Happy ending. Cold and aloof top × self-conscious academic bottom. Jiang Jingyi × Chu Xingmang, no switching.

2. Don't get too hung up on the writing or logic. This is just a fluffy little story by a beginner, so you don't need to think too hard. Feel free to drop it without telling me. Thanks.

3. The blurb may change before the story starts, but the premise won't.

Theme: Don't let precious feelings slip away.