I'll Stay by Your Side as You Become the Light

On her first day joining the school team, Lin Long meets Dou Kaihang, a legend in the competition circuit. Seeing the sharp-edged young man standing beside the coach and team captain, she hears him sneer:

"You insist on picking a partner for me? Fine. One, they don't talk much. Two, they don't make trouble. Three, ideally, they stay on my contact list forever and never bother me."

The coach lets out a pained sigh. Spotting Lin Long, he points her out and tries to negotiate with Dou Kaihang:

"How about this girl? She came first in the freshman selection trials, and she's sweet-looking too. She's not like those jerks from before. Don't bully her."

Dou Kaihang glances at Lin Long, his tone impatient. "She's so delicate. Why would I bother bullying her?"

"If she can't last a few weeks of training and goes running off in tears, don't expect me to comfort her."

Later, as they advance from school competitions to nationals and then the world championships, the entire ACM community witnesses God Kai's gradual downfall.

The genius boy, famed for his sharp tongue and rebellious spirit, blushes at the ears only when facing the team's pampered little darling. Holding out milk tea, he coaxes her in a soft, pleading voice:

"An'an, could you not smile at him? I'm jealous."

A computer competition novel. The countries, regions, schools, and award records are all fictional, and the competition rules have been adapted from reality.

From school team to world champion.

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The day after Jin Ruo agrees to let her family set her up on dates, her mother sends her a man's profile. Jin Ruo takes one look at his photo and name and quickly shakes her head.

Mother: ?

"Jinjin, didn't you say kind, understanding, mature, and dependable would be enough? He has a respectable job, a handsome face, a simple family, and he's even your schoolmate. Tell me, what don't you like?"

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At her first-ever blind date, Jin Ruo sits face-to-face with her ex-boyfriend, whom she broke up with six years ago. They stare at each other in silence.

Just then, both their phones light up with messages. Jin Ruo quietly breathes a sigh of relief and hurriedly picks up her phone to reply.

Song Jingshen, whose air is several times more reserved than she remembers, glances at her and curls his lips.

"Changed your lock screen?"

Jin Ruo murmurs, "Yeah."

She changed it to another picture after they broke up. She's lost count of how many times she's changed it over the years.

She glances at him without thinking, only to see the phone on the table light up. Its lock screen is still the cartoon Q-style drawing she made for him years ago, with a line of cute, lively handwriting in the lower-right corner:

"May Song Jingshen be happy every day~"

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[I once walked alone through a long winter,

but when winter passed, you came back.]

Theme: Believe that you deserve all the love and light in the world.