Spring Light for You

[The print edition is now available on all platforms. Follow @ShiTaoZhizhiYa for details.] [Marriage first, love later / His secret crush comes true. Next up: Dangerous Relationship. Coming soon: A Dream in Huainan and Thinking of Listening to Autumn's Whiteness. Please add them to your shelves! -v-] Blurb: On her twenty-seventh birthday, Sheng Sui decided to marry a man she had met only three times. The first time was at school. When students got into a fight, Sheng Sui called their parents and discovered that one of them was Zhou Shiyu, a legendary figure from her own high school days. The man was gentle and courteous, every movement refined. All the female teachers in the office sighed over how he had married so young. Sheng Sui introduced herself: “Hello, Dad. I'm your child's homeroom teacher.” Zhou Shiyu was taken aback, then smiled and played along. Before leaving, he asked her, “Teacher Sheng, would you mind exchanging contact information?” The second time was at an upscale restaurant. When Sheng Sui was being pestered by her blind date and couldn't get away, a warm palm suddenly closed around her wrist. A moment later, she heard her date cry out as he hit the ground. Zhou Shiyu stood in front of her. Turning around, he offered her a handkerchief and asked gently, “Teacher Sheng, are you still considering other blind dates?” Sheng Sui realized that Zhou Shiyu was currently single. The third time they met was at a hospital. In the middle of the night, her younger brother fell ill, and she hurried over to look after him, only to find Zhou Shiyu receiving an IV in a corner of the emergency room. The man had no one to care for him. His pale skin was flushed red with fever, and his breathing was weak. His burning hand took hers. His voice was feeble. “Teacher Sheng, could you stay with me?” - One day after they were married. Unable to sleep late at night, Sheng Sui got up and went to the study. She picked a poetry collection her husband often read, but when she opened it, a photograph slipped out. Its edges had yellowed with age. Sheng Sui saw herself and him as teenagers, smiling carefree beneath the camera's gaze. She turned and asked Zhou Shiyu, who had been silent behind her for a long time, “But I don't remember any of it.” “That's all right.” The man kissed away the tears at the corners of her eyes, still as tender as ever. “We have a long future ahead of us. I can tell you about it little by little.” He remembered every part of “us” for her. - Ever since he was sixteen, Zhou Shiyu had kept a secret buried deep in his heart. The night Sheng Sui gave him a good-luck charm, he wanted to do to her what people do beneath cherry trees in spring. Special education teacher x venture capital tycoon Her perspective: marriage first, love later. His perspective: a secret crush comes true Long-laid plans / mutual healing / each other's first love / happy ending Note: The child is the male lead's younger brother My next book is Endless Summer. Please add it to your shelves! -v- Blurb: 1. The day Miao Tu met Xu Yanbai fell at the end of winter, just as spring was beginning. The wind was bitterly cold. Miao Tu pushed a handcart slowly up a hill when suddenly the weight behind her eased. She turned and saw Xu Yanbai, wearing a black windbreaker, standing behind her. His hand was still on the cart, helping her push. Their eyes met. The handsome young man took off his gloves and tucked them into Miao Tu's frozen hands. His dark eyes, touched with melancholy, brimmed with warmth and laughter. Miao Tu couldn't hear what he said. She only stared at his eyes in a daze, watching his lips move. From then on, she was certain his voice had to be the most beautiful sound in the world. 2. Xu Yanbai transferred to the small town because he wanted to see the white flowers bloom with his own eyes. So, on a midsummer night after the college entrance exams, Miao Tu took him up to the ridge. There, on an empty stretch of land, they beheld hillsides blanketed in blooming flowers. Beneath the brilliant stars, Xu Yanbai turned around in a boundless sea of flowers, the hem of his white shirt dancing in the breeze. He asked softly, “Miao Tu, is there anything you still wish for?” His gaze made Miao Tu blush. She lowered her eyes and pointed to her ears. She said, “I want to heal my ears, so I can hear you call my name.” Xu Yanbai smiled and promised her. “You will.” 3. At the end of the story, no one knows whether the one she once knew kept his promise. In a world without Xu Yanbai, Miao Tu held on to the water-damaged voice recorder and listened over and over to the only recording of someone calling her name. As the flowers bloomed in early summer, her boy remained forever in that sea of white blossoms at eighteen, never reaching summer's end. And the words no one else knew, “I love you,” were heard only by heaven and earth: the boy's confession, scattered on the wind beneath the midsummer night sky. Hard-of-hearing girl x violin prodigy Mutual secret crush / each other's first love / tragic ending [The heroine's hearing will improve later in the story] Here's another upcoming book, A Dream in Huainan: Blurb: The summer was stifling, the scorching sun beating down on the city. After being beaten at home, Nan Li fled. Inside a shabby clinic, she stared blankly as Chen Beisi tossed the last bottle of liniment in front of her, then turned and walked away. The tall, thin boy was pale and sharp-featured. His oversized school uniform billowed in the wind, and beneath the bandages on his wrists, hidden by his pockets, blood kept seeping through. She hurried after him and softly called to his retreating figure, “Thank you.” They had been classmates for two years, but this was their first real interaction. Afterward, Nan Li tried several times to bring him medicine and thank him, but she was turned away every time. In a corner of the hallway, Chen Beisi looked down at the slender girl, his expression sullen and hostile. Irritated beyond endurance, he said, “Good girl, stay away from me.” “But you're hurt.” Nan Li raised her eyes and looked at him calmly. “You feel pain too, don't you?” Everyone around her urged Nan Li to keep her distance from Chen Beisi. A killer's blood ran through the boy's veins, and the tiny scar on his brow, no bigger than a fingernail, was the clearest proof of his violent, dangerous nature. Unfortunately for them, Nan Li was more stubborn than anyone. One evening, torrential rain poured down. On the deserted school field, someone saw Nan Li walking toward Chen Beisi, who was there alone, holding an umbrella. In the rain and mist, the slender, handsome boy was soaked through. He pushed the pale yellow umbrella into her hand, yet stubbornly kept it over the girl. He repeated the same words: “Stop worrying about me. We're not cut from the same cloth.” “Chen Beisi,” Nan Li said calmly, “say that again.” “I said...” The boy leaned toward her. Wet hair hid his dark eyes, and his fingers clenched around the umbrella handle until his knuckles turned white. His voice was hoarse as he said, “Don't leave me.” - Chen Beisi believed his life was destined to be an endless abyss, a bottomless mire. He had never imagined that one day, a girl in a white dress would stand beneath the bright moonlight and look back at him, smiling as she told him, “Chen Beisi.” “If no one in this world loves you, then let me be the one who stays by your side, and yours alone.” Seemingly sweet girl x genuinely rebellious boy Theme: Show kindness to every person from a marginalized group around you.