* Firefighter VS cultural relic restorer
* "You're like the night, holding silence and stars. I spent my entire barren youth pursuing you."
1
It was an ordinary rainy day.
Shan Wan ran down the stairs and accidentally bumped into the boy she'd secretly loved.
When she looked up, she met his eyes, hazy with dampness.
A little cold.
She murmured, "Sorry," but he didn't respond. His fingertips tapped at his phone, his head lowered as he carried on typing a message, absorbed in his own world.
It was as if he hadn't seen her at all.
Back then, he was a free-spirited bird. The faces by his side were always changing, and love was just something to pass the time.
When a girl did confess her feelings, he would only laugh, without a care in the world.
And she was no more than an extra whose face was too indistinct to remember.
No one ever knew about the dreams she had of him.
2
Years later, Shan Wan met him again outside a convenience store.
The boyishness was gone, replaced by a man with a worn, dissolute air.
Impulsively, she ran up to him and asked, "Do you remember me?"
"...I do," he said.
Those two words were like a spell. She fell for him all over again,
like a moth to a flame.
3
She bent over relics, racing against time to restore them.
He fought against the crowd, risking everything as he rushed into a fire to save people.
At last, the bird stayed for the fish.
"They say that everything seeking to last forever eventually ends up in a damp grave.
Then, A Wan, in this life, I only want to walk into the grave with you."
* Mutual secret crushes, both have no prior relationships
* "You're like the night, holding silence and stars." - Neruda
My other ongoing novel of the same genre: Hiding My Talents
* A clueless innocent girl x a sulky, cunning schemer
* Unrequited love becomes mutual / reunion after years apart / romance between roommates
"The first time we met, a cloudy sky hid your profile. I wanted to know your story. I felt I understood what made you special." - Heart Wall
1
In middle school, a tall, lean boy transferred into the class next door. He had monolid eyes, a cold gaze, and few words. He never wore his uniform, always dressed in black, and spent most of his time sleeping with his head on the desk.
Like the other girls, Xue Yuening would pretend to go to the bathroom during breaks, clutching her textbook and hurrying past his window with a flushed face.
But she never dared to look at him openly.
On graduation day, she watched as one girl after another blushed and went to give him a love letter, only to be driven away by his cold indifference, just as expected.
Xue Yuening waited until the sunset glowed before finally working up the courage to run over and say his name for the first time:
"Ch-Chen Zhuo."
In the evening glow, the boy's fingers paused as he lit a cigarette. His eyes narrowed and swept over her without expression.
His gaze lingered for a brief second on the jar of paper stars in her arms. Then he pointed off to one side. "Go play somewhere else."
The seed of "love" in her heart had barely sprouted before it was crushed.
2
After graduating, she spent three years drifting in Guangzhou without getting anywhere. On the day she hesitated over whether to end her lease and return to her hometown, she unexpectedly ran into those familiar eyes in the stairwell.
That night, Xue Yuening posted an urgent plea for help on Douban: "My roommate is the boy I had a crush on in middle school. What should I do!!!"
Much later, someone happened to see her posting history, made an account on the spot, and carefully replied to everyone in the thread: "Thanks, everyone. We're together now."
After crossing the river of all those long years, every bitter secret of a girl's heart would finally, one day, come true.
3
One night before they got together, the power went out. The man was about to leave for the office to work overtime when Xue Yuening couldn't help grabbing the edge of his sleeve. She looked at him pitifully. "Could you stay? It's so dark in here. I'm scared."
He raised an eyebrow and gave a soft, mocking laugh. "Am I a light bulb?"
Later, when Xue Yuening gave him the silent treatment, the shameless man cut the power, grabbed a pillow, and knocked on her door. With an earnest expression, he said, "I don't mind being your light bulb."
Little Scene:
With the high school entrance exams approaching, the director of discipline swore to crack down on the school's improper trend of young romance. The obvious first target was Chen Zhuo, whose handsome face had won the hearts of half the girls in his grade.
He was dragged to the office in the middle of a nap to listen to a lecture. The boy's eyes drooped, letting it all go in one ear and out the other, until the director began asking pointedly whether anyone else showed signs of being in a relationship.
His eyes narrowed slightly. Without hesitation, he scribbled down several names.
They belonged to the very boys who had been pursuing Xue Yuening most fiercely at the time.
* A slow-burn, everyday story about the ordinary love of two ordinary people
* A soft girl who's timid most of the time but astonishingly brave when it matters, and a cool guy whose mouth is as hard as... well, everything else, who seems calm on the surface but gets wildly jealous in private
Theme: Study hard and improve every day
I saw someone saying that the heroine, Silly Bei, changed her relationship for the male protagonist, so I will defend myself here. 1. No one in liberal arts or science is superior. But when I wrote it, it was based on the situation in our province when I was in high school. From a utilitarian point of view, science students had more majors to choose from when applying for university, and a large number of them were admitted. For example, a certain school may admit 50 liberal arts students in our province, while the number of science students may be 100 or even 200. With the same effort, choosing science will be more "advantageous". 2. The heroine likes history. People around me are saying that girls are better at liberal arts than science. So before meeting Jin Linsheng, she thought she preferred liberal arts. But in fact, this is a scam. Who said girls can't learn to be reasonable? I always thought this was a trick used by scheming men to snatch resources. 3. Secret love gives the heroine courage, but the heroine does not change her mind for anyone. Later she also proved that girls can learn science well. 4. After all, the novel is just a novel. I hope you will not change your decision for anyone.
I really think this extra chapter could be a book on its own, it's so awesome ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I beg you to open a new book about Chen Hesang
It's really like my secret love, but he and I are not a mutual crush, it's just my unrequited love.
Let's make a collection about weddings! I want to spend money on buying articles for Da Dahahaha
When will you update the next book? I really like your writing style, the light depression, the youthfulness and sadness of secret love, the sour and sweet thoughts of a girl.
Nice! In my heart, I have a crush on the top couple~
Ahhhhhhh Shuen is really awesome!!!
After reading it, I sighed, I love Xiao Xu so much
Woohoo, don't abuse our brother Sui