Ming Yao would always remember.
It was raining that day, and water pooled on the road, leaving her stranded at the shop entrance. The boy beside her seemed to carry the mist of the rainy day with him. He held out his umbrella. "Take it. Don't get wet."
She glanced up and met his carefree, captivating eyes.
Her heart skipped a beat.
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On the day she decided she wouldn't like Xu Qingye anymore, Ming Yao secretly wrote him a letter and slipped it between the pages of his book:
[Every moment of a secret crush is like tasting a bunch of half-ripe green grapes.
You never know what the next one will taste like.
It might be sweet,
but it could just as easily be sour again.
So, Xu Qingye, I don't want to keep taking chances.
And I don't want to like you anymore.]
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Years later, their reunion brought them back into each other's lives.
The feelings she'd had as a girl were like a wasteland. Once a spark appeared, they spread uncontrollably.
Ming Yao did her best to hold back, never crossing the line.
Until that day.
The sudden downpour went on and on. Ming Yao stood beneath the eaves. In the distance, a tall, straight-backed man approached beneath a black umbrella and stopped in front of her.
In the silence, he spoke.
"I only hold an umbrella for my girlfriend."
"Have you made up your mind?" Their eyes met. Xu Qingye tilted the umbrella toward her, his voice just as it had been years ago when he lent it to her. "If you have, come here."
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