Cold Spring

The companion story next door, Watching Summer, has started updating!

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After news broke that Chi Yue and Jiang Xu were together, plenty of people asked her how she managed to win the aloof heartthrob over.

Chi Yue: "I pursued him."

Jiang Xu: "...Oh?"

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

2

It's been three years since Jiang Xu's film Between the Rising and Falling went online. Many people joked that he should reimburse them for all the tissues they used after being moved by it.

If he couldn't pay them back in tissues, paying them back with a person would do. Either way, it was a good deal.

But he never responded.

Until one day, he posted a blog: [Paid up].

The picture showed a roasted sweet potato, a cup of hot chocolate, and a pair of wedding rings.

Everyone: Paying them back with a person? That's one heck of a payment!

Later, an interviewer asked about his love life, and how he had met his wife.

For once, he finally gave an answer, but it was just four words: "The advantage of living nearby."

Living near the water, you get the moon first.

#If I don't say anything, no one will know I fell for my wife first#

#It really took a long time for her to come around#

Bright spring sunshine vs. the aloof heartthrob

A 100,000-word, gentle and slow-paced little story

He isn't a long, cold winter.

He's spring.

No matter how cold the beginning of spring may be, the ending is sure to be warm and brilliant.

+++++++++++++++++++--A Little Record of Chi Yue

One-on-one + both leads' first time

Blurb posted on 2022.01.26, revised on 3.24

--Blurb for Watching Summer

A somewhat reserved qipao artisan vs. a handsome young master who's warm on the surface and cold-hearted underneath

1.

Song Aixing's first memory of meeting Ling Lan was at a rowdy New Year's Eve birthday party.

The lights flashed so wildly they blurred his vision, and the music pounded in his ears.

Yet there was one person dressed in a plain-colored qipao,

serene as an ink painting that had strayed into the mortal world.

Later, many people saw the two of them going everywhere together.

People would tease Young Master Song, asking if he'd really fallen for her.

He never answered.

After all, no one took the banter of those worldly social circles seriously.

But after Young Master Song disappeared for a long time and then returned,

when someone joked about it again,

he answered, "Yes."

A crowd of busybodies went to dig up the details,

only to discover

that the cool, aloof beauty had actually dumped him.

2.

Ling Lan only heard the rumors about herself much later, rumors that made her sound almost legendary.

They said she was decisive and carefree.

At the time, she had an arm around the waist of the man who started it all, and asked softly:

"Was I carefree back then?"

"Sure. Carefree enough to deal a thousand points of damage to your enemy and take eight hundred yourself."

No one but the two of them would ever know how, that night,

she tearfully laid bare the feelings she'd carried for years, then left with a clear head.

"Then shall we be carefree again?"

"Dream on."

And so Young Master Song, who never let a slight go unanswered,

really did keep her up all night--

dreaming.

I've seen a thousand colors in this world,

but only blue and white

became the hues of my soul.

Clearheaded, self-possessed qipao artisan vs. a handsome young master who's warm on the surface and cold-hearted underneath

One-on-one, both leads' first time

Happy ending, 80% sweet romance, 200,000 words

Theme: Spring always comes