Meeting You Is a Stroke of Luck

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My next book will be White Paper Letter or First Moon. Follow my Weibo, @Li Que Li, for updates on when I'll start posting.

[White Paper Letter blurb]

They say your eyes light up when you look at the person you love, but Wen Shiyi secretly hid that light away.

Loving Zhou Lubai was the biggest secret of Wen Shiyi's youth. She kept her feelings in her heart and never told a soul.

Then, on Zhou Lubai's birthday, she finally worked up the courage to slip a letter written on blank paper into his book.

She had drawn the illustration on it herself, but left no name. She wrote just one German word: "Augenstern."

He was the object of every girl's fantasies, and hers too.

She wanted him to know, but was also afraid he would find out.

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Years later, they met again in college.

Zhou Lubai was still the adored darling of the heavens, with countless admirers around him. Knowing she could never reach the moon, Wen Shiyi kept her distance and gazed at him from afar.

One day, at a class reunion, they played a game. Zhou Lubai lost and chose truth. Someone asked him, "Was there anyone in high school you could never forget?"

"Let me think..."

Zhou Lubai rested his chin on one hand, looking carefree as he pretended to ponder. Then he drawled, "In my second year of high school, someone left a letter written on blank paper in my desk. I remember that pretty well."

At his words, Wen Shiyi's heart suddenly clenched. She couldn't help looking up, and unexpectedly met his deep gaze, like a butterfly falling into a trap laid long ago.

Everyone laughed at how strange the girl who sent the letter was, and asked who she could be. Zhou Lubai looked at her meaningfully and said nothing.

When the reunion ended, everyone went their separate ways.

Wen Shiyi stood up to leave, but Zhou Lubai suddenly called out to her and walked over at an unhurried pace.

His cool features were veiled in shifting light and shadow, his emotions churning. "Wen Shiyi, next time, could you leave your name..."

"At least then I'd know where I stand."

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One day after they moved in together, Wen Shiyi found the letter she'd once given Zhou Lubai in his notebook.

Memories of her youth rose in her mind. With tears in her eyes, she opened the envelope and saw a line added inside.

[You are precious beyond compare. No one could ever take your place.] -- Zhou Lubai, Class 9, Grade 12.

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Reader's note:

Augenstern: The person dearest to you.

The setting is fictional. All countries, places, people, and events mentioned are invented. Please don't associate them with real life.

Carefree, seemingly arrogant diplomat x gentle, resilient, seemingly composed reporter

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[First Moon blurb]

The day she learned she could no longer dance, Zhu Liyue cried alone on the rooftop for a long time, unknowingly disturbing a young man's sweet dream.

Lu Yunli wasn't annoyed. He took a packet of tissues from his pocket and offered it to her, his voice neither warm nor cold. "Stop crying."

Though he was only an accidental breeze passing through, his aloofness stirred a storm within her.

From that day on, Lu Yunli occupied her entire youth.

As graduation approached, their homeroom teacher asked every student to write a wish on the classroom's wish wall.

Lu Yunli had already planned to become a pilot. When the classroom was empty, Zhu Liyue found his wish card among the others.

She secretly stuck a note to the back. It read:

"This year, instead of wishing you Expecto Patronum, I wish you safe takeoffs and landings."

She kept her feelings hidden, never expecting him to see them. She only hoped her wish would come true year after year.

Later, she went abroad to study, and her love, hidden away from the light, ended there.

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Years later, they met again in a foreign country.

A few old classmates got together to catch up. Someone asked why Lu Yunli was still single.

A drunken friend blurted out, "He's got a moonlight he can't forget."

Then they mentioned that Lu Yunli had a tattoo beneath his ribs, one connected to his moonlight.

Zhu Liyue sat quietly in the corner and listened. Her long-silent heart ached again, and she quietly lowered her eyes to hide her fading expression.

The others kept asking questions. "What did he get tattooed?"

Only then did Lu Yunli, silent until now, answer in a casual tone:

"Expecto Patronum."

Everyone pressed him to say who it was, but Lu Yunli calmly stayed quiet. Only after the topic changed did he look at the silent girl beside him.

"Zhu Liyue, don't you have anything you want to ask?"

"Ask what?" Zhu Liyue said, confused.

Lu Yunli's voice sounded calm, but it held endless tenderness.

"Ask me who that person is."

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On the night sparks flew, Zhu Liyue used the faint light to see the tattoo on the man's body.

Beneath his left ribs, it read "Expecto Patronum," with a tiny moon beside it.

I saw the bright moon, its light entering my dreams. And you are my Patronus.

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Reader's note:

Translator x pilot / mutual pining

Expecto Patronum: From Harry Potter.

Though it was only an accidental breeze passing through, his aloofness stirred a storm within her: A line from the internet.

Deleted if this infringes on anyone's rights.

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[This novel's blurb]

1) In high school, like countless other girls, Yu Zhi secretly had a crush on the dazzling Xu Zeyu.

He was the darling of the heavens, a moon beyond her reach. She was reserved and quiet, well-behaved, and lived in a world completely separate from his.

She followed behind him and watched his back countless times, but never once found the courage to approach him.

When she later learned he was going abroad, Yu Zhi's silent crush ended in that summer of restless love.

She never thought to tell him. She only wished him "a bright future and a safe journey."

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2) Years later, the two unexpectedly met again, and work brought them together on many occasions.

Yu Zhi repeatedly tried to keep her restless heart in check around the person she'd once loved from afar, but gradually she realized things weren't quite so simple.

It seemed that none of their chance encounters were actually coincidences. Xu Zeyu seemed to be arranging them on purpose.

One day, she finally got her answer.

Xu Zeyu asked in a hoarse voice, "Yu Zhi, could you give me a chance?"

She'd always thought she was the only one who knew the pain of a secret crush.

Who could have guessed he had one too?

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Surgeon x screenwriter

Mutual pining / reunion after years apart / primarily set in the city, with a secondary school arc / happy ending / both virgins

At school: she secretly loves him. In the city: he pursues her.

[The original blurb was written on October 18, 2021, and a screenshot has been kept.]

Point: Study hard and make progress every day.