The day Zhu Yunyue learned she could no longer dance, she cried alone on the rooftop for a long time, accidentally disturbing a boy's sweet sleep.
Gu Yunli wasn't annoyed. He took a pack of tissues from his pocket and handed it to her, his tone indifferent. "Stop crying."
He was merely an accidental draft passing through, yet somehow he stirred a flood within her.
From that day on, Gu Yunli took over her entire youth.
As graduation approached, their homeroom teacher asked every student to write a wish on the wish wall.
By then, the boy had already planned out his future. When the classroom was empty, Zhu Yunyue found Gu Yunli's wish card among the others.
She secretly stuck a note on the back. It read:
"May you cast Expecto Patronum, and may happiness and peace always prevail for you."
She kept her feelings hidden, never expecting him to see them. She only hoped that her blessing would come true year after year.
Later, she went abroad to study, and her secret, unrequited love ended there.
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Years later, they met again in a foreign country.
A group of old classmates chatted and reminisced. Someone, eager for gossip, asked why Gu Yunli was still single.
A drunk friend spoke without thinking. "He has someone he can't forget. His white moonlight."
Then he mentioned that Gu Yunli had a tattoo below his ribs, connected to his white moonlight.
Zhu Yunyue sat quietly in a corner, listening. Her long-dormant heart ached again, and she lowered her eyes to conceal her fading expression.
The others continued their gossip. "What did he get tattooed?"
Only then did Gu Yunli, who had been silent for a long time, answer casually:
"Expecto Patronum."
Everyone pressed him to reveal who it was. Gu Yunli calmly said nothing, until the conversation moved on and he turned to the silent girl beside him.
"Zhu Yunyue, don't you have anything you want to ask?"
"Ask what?" Zhu Yunyue asked, confused.
Gu Yunli's voice sounded calm, yet was full of tender affection.
"Ask who that person is."
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The night sparks flew, Zhu Yunyue used the faint light to see the tattoo on the man's body.
Below his left ribs was the phrase "Expecto Patronum," with a tiny moon beside it.
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Reading notes:
Mutual secret crushes
Expecto Patronum is from Harry Potter.
"He was merely an accidental draft passing through, yet somehow he stirred a flood within her" comes from the internet.
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