A Dream in Huainan [Mutual Salvation]

Blurb:

In the sweltering early autumn, the scorching sun seemed ready to lay siege to the city.

Nan Li ran away from home with an injury.

Inside a run-down clinic, she stared blankly as Chen Beijue tossed the last bottle of liniment in front of her, then turned to leave.

The tall, slender boy was pale and sharp-edged. His oversized school uniform billowed in the wind. With his hands in his pockets, he hid the blood seeping from beneath the bandage around his wrist.

She ran after him and softly called to his retreating figure, "Thank you."

They had been classmates for a year, but this was their first interaction.

Afterward, Nan Li tried several times to bring him medicine and thank him, but each time she hit a wall.

In a secluded corner, Chen Beijue looked down at the slender girl. He seemed surly and gloomy, and thoroughly annoyed. "Good student, stay away from me."

"But you're hurt," Nan Li said, looking up at him. "You feel pain too, don't you?"

Everyone around her told Nan Li to stay away from Chen Beijue.

The blood of a murderer flowed through the boy's veins, and the small scar above his brow, no bigger than a pinky fingernail, was the clearest proof of his violent, dangerous nature.

Unfortunately, Nan Li was more stubborn than anyone.

One evening, a torrential rain poured down.

On the deserted school field, someone saw Nan Li walk toward Chen Beijue, who was all alone, holding an umbrella.

In the rain and mist, the thin, handsome boy was soaked through. He was given a pale yellow umbrella, but stubbornly held it over the girl instead.

He repeated the same words: "Stop worrying about me. We're not on the same path."

"Chen Beijue," Nan Li said calmly, "say that again."

"I said," the boy leaned closer, wet hair veiling his dark eyes. His fingers gripped the umbrella handle so tightly that his knuckles turned white. His voice was hoarse as he said,

"Don't leave me behind."

Chen Beijue thought his life was destined to be a bottomless abyss and an endless mire.

He never imagined that one day, beneath the bright moonlight, a girl in a white dress would look back at him with a beaming smile and say:

"Chen Beijue."

"If there is no one here to protect you, then let me be the one who serves you, and only you."

Pretend-good girl X world-weary boy

Lawyer X tattoo artist

Each other's first love / Happy ending / 1v1 / Reconciliation after a breakup

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