When Liang Bai was young, she was a poor student who never applied herself. She hated studying, acted brashly, and couldn't stand top students who dressed so impeccably and got such great grades.
Xie Jinyan was the one she picked on most.
Everyone at school knew the two of them couldn't stand each other. But no one knew that on the evening after the college entrance exam, Liang Bai rose onto her toes and kissed him in a dim alley, ever so carefully.
As an adult, Xie Jinyan had transformed into the president of the Xie Group.
He carried himself with an air of privilege and aloofness, a cool beauty untouched by worldly desires, until he saw the wicked girl who had taken him and then abandoned him.
As she grew up, Liang Bai shed her sharp edges and brashness, drifting with the tide until she faded into the crowd, one anonymous face among millions.
At a get-together, a coworker asked what the boldest thing she'd ever done in her twenty-some years was.
Liang Bai thought for a moment. "Dumping my first love?"
The coworker asked what one more daring thing would be.
Liang Bai fell silent for a moment. "Dumping him again?"
Someone passing behind her let out a cold laugh. Everyone looked over, and there was Xie Jinyan, their business partner.
*
Late at night, Liang Bai had just walked in when someone pulled her into an embrace.
The person behind her wrapped his arms tightly around her waist and rested his chin in the hollow of her shoulder. His voice was flat as he asked, "Liang Bai, am I someone you can summon whenever you want and dismiss whenever you please?"
Liang Bai: ...
Liang Bai: Could you let me go before saying that?
She was a butterfly in flight, gently beating her wings, leaving behind a hurricane that raged endlessly in my world.
Coming soon
Title: Winter Fire
Blurb: [Unrequited love / Childhood sweethearts]
Wen Xi had kept a secret for ten years: she had a crush on her childhood friend, Zhou Shirang.
From the first stirrings of love to mature restraint, she watched him shine with confidence and watched him fall deeply in love.
As his closest friend, she gave him the well wishes she least wanted to offer.
Wen Xi thought her relationship with Zhou Shირang would go on like that forever, until one drunken slip of the tongue revealed to the world the secret she'd kept for a decade.
Zhou Shirang leaned against a streetlight, his face hidden in the dark. The cigarette between his fingers glowed and dimmed. "I'm sorry. I only see you as a friend."
*
Her unrequited love began at fifteen and came to an abrupt end at twenty-five.
After her confession was rejected, Wen Xi left the familiar place behind in a sorry state and built a wall around her heart.
When they met again, she was in a hospital bed after a car accident, hesitating over whether to ask a coworker for help. A hand with long, distinct knuckles took her phone. She looked up to see Zhou Shirang, his white coat soaked through, raindrops dripping from his hair, his face dark and frightening. "Who else were you going to call?"
- Unrequited love is a lonely whale: he shines and lives boldly, but he has never been part of my world.
- Childhood sweethearts
Theme: Be brave in love and keep striving
