Summer with You

[Secret Crush] [The next book, If It Were You, is in my author’s column. Please add it to your collection.]

On the day she was accepted, Li Zhi wrote an anonymous message and posted it on the school’s wishing wall.

“I got into my favorite university and my favorite program. I can’t give them up, so I have to give you up.

If we ever get the chance to meet again, I hope we’ll both have become better people.

If we don’t, then I hope I can forget you and bravely move forward.”

#SecretCrush#

Blurb written 2021.11.20, revised 2023.03.28

The next book, If It Were You, is in my author’s column. Please add it to your collection:

Lin Suli was abandoned by the Lin family years ago. Now they’re pushing her into an arranged marriage. She agrees on the surface, but secretly plans to run away without letting anyone know.

One night, she met someone.

Under the streetlight, Lin Suli noticed the injury at the corner of his forehead. The scar was fresh, blood staining his fierce features like a blade, cold and dangerous.

Yet Lin Suli smiled and reminded him, “Be careful. You’re pretty handsome. It’d be a shame to mess up your face.”

*

After that, Jiang Yanzhou often came to see her, concealing his identity all the while.

Lin Suli thought he was like her, so she let him get close. They watched the sunset together, weathered torrential rain, and drank the strongest liquor.

But she knew he was ultimately just the most rebellious wind to blow through her life, one she couldn’t keep and shouldn’t try to.

She said goodbye to him: “I’m leaving. Take good care of yourself. Don’t get into fights, and don’t get hurt...”

Jiang Yanzhou smiled, amused. “Got it. You’re so naggy.”

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On the day she planned to run away, Jiang Yanzhou appeared like a god and helped her along. The escape went far more smoothly than she had imagined.

Lin Suli couldn’t help admiring how flawless her plan was.

Jiang Yanzhou smiled nonchalantly. “You really think your escape plan had no holes in it?”

“Lin Suli, I’m the one you’re supposed to marry.”

“But I’m also the one helping you escape from the wedding.”

The wind blew past. Jiang Yanzhou suddenly dropped his playful air and looked at her seriously. “So now that you’re no longer anyone’s fiancée, would you consider me?”

Theme: Study hard and keep each other company