Shen Zhuo first met Ruan Tian in the middle of a sweltering summer.
She came to his house to study music with his mother. She was stunningly beautiful and arrogant, yet very popular with the boys.
The girl's slender waist was wrapped in a red slip dress. Her long, pale legs swung from the swing, and a cigarette rested between her fingertips.
She pursed her lips and exhaled lazily. Propping her chin on her hand, she gave him an innocent look and beckoned with a finger, amusement and allure in her eyes.
"Hey, little brother, want to date me?"
Her cherry-red lips parted and closed. Her long black hair fell against her thin shoulder straps, and her peach-colored fingertips brushed past her ear. Ruan Tian walked over, tossed the cigarette butt into the trash can behind him, and blew a breath against his neck.
Her teasing made his whole body tense. His ears flushed red, and he clenched his fingers before saying coldly, "Dinner's ready."
She laughed freely as she brushed past him, the tips of her hair grazing the boy's cheek, carrying a faint rose scent.
In the hot summer wind, the eighteen-year-old boy learned what it meant to fall for someone for the first time.
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Shen Zhuo was an art student, handsome and refined, with distinct knuckles and a gift for oil painting. But he was eccentric and aloof. At eighteen, he was like a piece of cool, exquisite Chinese white porcelain: cold and distant, never getting close to anyone.
When Ruan Tian moved into Guiyuan, her friend came to visit. The girl rose on tiptoe, her red lips brushing the boy's porcelain-white cheek, while Shen Zhuo stiffened and tensed his fingertips, seeming to hold himself back.
Later, Ruan Tian got a new boyfriend, and their friends lamented that the two of them were never meant to be.
But no one knew how, on every sleepless summer night, he held his paintbrush and imagined the girl next door, carefully sketching the contours of her face with exquisite precision.
The aloof, indifferent boy breathed long and heavily, his face flushed and sweat beading on his forehead as he struggled to hide the unspeakable love in his heart.
When will she belong to me?
An aloof art student boy x a gorgeous, flirtatious musical theater actress
Screenshot dated 2021.10.21
Theme: A summer romance
