Adrift

[The print edition went on sale in May 2024. For details, follow Weibo @QinFangHaoYa] Ten years ago, Meng Qingchuan and Ye Zi were worlds apart. Meng Qingchuan was a young heir adored by everyone, exceptionally talented and handsome, with countless admirers. Yet there had never been anyone by his side. Ye Zi was a beauty of mysterious origins. She had a stunning face, but a stubborn, haughty temperament. Their lives were like parallel lines that would never intersect. But one look from the young Ye Zi made the usually distant Meng Qingchuan fall for her in an instant. Fate turned everything upside down. Ye Zi was looked down upon, fled the place where she had been hurt, and vanished completely. They had nothing more to do with each other. Years later, they meet again. Both secretly try to outdo the other, refusing to give in. Meng Qingchuan keeps losing, until he finally can't take it anymore and demands, "What on earth do I have to do for you to admit you like me?" She doesn't know that all these years, she has been the bright moon in his long, dark night, sacred and untouchable. "I'm like a rootless weed, drifting through the world. Your arms are the only harbor where I can find a place to rest." A gentle, healing little story. I hope it brings you warmth this spring. Reunion after a long separation | Mutual salvation | Four-year age gap | Both are virgins [Devoted young master VS tragic beauty] At a meeting to choose a project, someone suggests an "unrequited love" theme and asks everyone to share their own stories of secret crushes. When it is Fang Beixia's turn, she recalls the two years in high school when she and an unnamed boy secretly passed little notes to each other. Just as she is about to speak, major investor Jiang Yue arrives. The man carries himself with refined elegance and gentle poise, and the women present sigh as soon as he takes his seat. No one else knows, but Fang Beixia does: this guy was her classmate for three years. He seems noble and aloof on the surface, but he's arrogant, scheming, and vindictive, and he knows plenty of embarrassing things about her. So she lowers her head and smiles. "I've never had a crush on anyone." 2. The short drama Little Notes, about unrequited love, takes the internet by storm. Netizens rave that its tragic ending is the ultimate in bittersweet beauty! The young director Fang Beixia becomes an overnight sensation. Just as she's basking in the limelight, investor Jiang Yue demands that the show be pulled and the ending reshot. The man stands by the window, radiating loneliness and cold pride, his face dark. "A tragic ending? Fang Beixia, I must have been crazy to write you 3,676 notes back then." + A man secretly loves a woman | From school to the city Theme: Protect the dreams of our youth.