Winter Fireflies

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Blurb:

In a foreign land that year, Yu Jia sat down in a garbage heap, wearing a filthy, tattered skirt and covered in dust.

She survived by scavenging every day, living a life as insignificant as an insect. An orphan abandoned by the world, she was like a rat everyone wanted to beat.

The day she tried to jump into the sea, Yu Jia met a man.

He had an air of lazy indifference about him. With his hands in his pockets and his eyes half-lidded, he looked at her as if he were humoring a child with a disability.

He spoke first as they faced off. "What are you doing?"

"I don't want to live anymore."

"Oh." He looked like he was enjoying the show, pointing lazily into the distance. "Then go somewhere farther away. Don't do it here. I don't want to see anything gross. I just want to enjoy the view in peace."

"Do you own this stretch of sea?"

"No. But you can't do that right in front of me."

Later, Yu Jia said to Jiang Zeyan, "Take me with you."

Later still, Nanchuan City was hit by the heaviest snowstorm of the year. Jiang Zeyan sat by the floor-to-ceiling window, his elbow resting on his knee as shadows of snow flickered across the glass. His phone chimed, and a bank transfer came through.

A moment later, it chimed again. A text had arrived from an unfamiliar number.

Just three words, but they were a decisive, clean-cut goodbye.

We're even.

[Blurb revised on 2022.7.25, screenshot]

Content notes: 1. Both leads are virgins. 2. Happy ending.

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---------Preview of Nightfeather---------

During their years at Shenghua High School, Gu Xinye treated Yun Ni like royalty. People around them were endlessly envious and endlessly talkative, and in the year they graduated, they naturally got together.

Then, during the summer of their freshman year of college, Gu Xinye asked her, "Do you want the money or me?"

"The money." Yun Ni answered nonchalantly. "I was with you because it had become a habit. Now I'm leaving because this is as far as we can go. We should break up."

Gu Xinye sat without a word. He didn't nod, but his silence said it all.

Those two years spent enjoying the money were so dull. After experiencing the best, she finally understood what it meant to find everything bland.

They reunited at a Paris fashion show. Gu Xinye didn't spare her a single glance all night.

As glasses clinked around her, Yun Ni was about to raise her glass and go over when someone beside him stopped her in time. "Lots of girls want to get with him. Go take a number from his assistant first."

"..."

Premise: Snow falls in midsummer, and fireflies appear in the depths of winter