Name: A Minty Secret Crush
Author: Ruo Shi An Xuan

Synopsis

[Secret Crush] [Reunion After Years Apart] [Redemption] The author has revised this story many times. I am not responsible for pirated copies, so please support the official version!

Weibo: Ruoshi Anxuan 06

Blurb:

Xia Xuan has a secret she can't tell anyone. The boy's dazzling figure is the light engraved in her heart.

That rainy night was the closest she ever came to that light. Lu Sizhou was cornered by some thugs at the mouth of an alley, blood seeping from his arm and trickling down his pale fingers onto his shoes, staining his pristine white sneakers red.

Xia Xuan glanced over under the dim yellow streetlight. Her heart clenched. She kicked aside a stone by her foot and pretended to be calm. "Excuse me, let me through. I need to go home."

What no one knew was that her home wasn't really here.

Xia Xuan had liked someone for years. The day she finally summoned the courage to confess, she saw him announce his girlfriend on his social media feed.

At that moment, her world fell apart.

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When they reunite at university, Lu Sizhou is still the one everyone adores. At his birthday party, people crowd around him, with gifts of every size piled up before him. He lounges on the sofa, chatting casually with the person beside him.

A girl playfully offers to sing for him. He lowers his eyes and taps out a few words on his phone with his pale fingers.

Xia Xuan's phone lights up. Lu Sizhou has sent her a WeChat message.

[Want to hear a song?]

Before she can reply, another message comes in.

[The Moon Represents My Heart.]

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Later, at a high school alumni reunion, his classmates tease him after he's had a few drinks and ask, "Have you ever had feelings for anyone?"

Under the dim yellow lights, Lu Sizhou slowly lifts his eyelids and looks at the young woman across from him, her face flushed. His casual smile fades, and his voice turns intoxicating and seductive. "Yes."

After everyone leaves that night, he corners her behind the door, his eyes bloodshot as he asks, "How much longer are you going to hide from me?"

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Later, after they get together, Xia Xuan remembers that he once had feelings for someone. Her eyes hazy with drink, she asks him, "Who was the girl who made your heart race?"

Lu Sizhou holds her close and whispers tenderly in her ear, "You."

Secret crush · Reunion after years apart · From high school to university

Good girl x rebellious boy

1. Both are each other's first and only. The girlfriend was fake, and the male lead only ever loved the female lead.

2. The characters aren't perfect. The heroine grew up in a family that favored boys over girls, and her parents will divorce later in the story.

3. The author has revised this story many times and isn't responsible for pirated copies. Please refer to the official version, and don't leave comments after reading a pirated copy. Thank you!

4. Important: this is a redemption story! The heroine's family background is very troubled.

5. Anti-piracy ratio: 90%, 72 hours

6. Weibo: Ruoshi Anxuan 06

Coming soon: Heartbeat

Blurb:

#SecretCrush #RekindledRomance#

On the snowiest day Yun City has ever seen, Zhou Sihui is kicked out of her boyfriend's car. Her documents scatter across the ground, and she crouches to pick them up one by one.

The wind is fierce that day, and the temperature is the lowest Yun City has seen all year. Her fingers are red and trembling from the cold. As she picks up the last page, someone approaches her.

He's tall and slender, holding a black umbrella. The light is too dim for her to make out his face; all she can see is the clean line of his jaw.

And hear that voice that makes her heart ache and leaves her restless.

Song Qi crouches down on one knee, presses the umbrella into her hand, then takes off his suit jacket and drapes it over her. His eyes shimmer with reflected light. "Put it on. Don't catch a cold."

Only then does Zhou Sihui realize that liking him has become instinctive.

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Zhou Sihui remembers so many things: his uninhibited figure on the basketball court, his astonishing singing voice at the school arts show, the girls crowding around him and competing to give him presents at his birthday party. She's seen so many sides of him: arrogant and carefree, lazy and undisciplined, wild and impossible to tame.

The one thing she can't quite remember is what he said that night when she was drunk and broke up with him. He slowly raised his eyelids, his eyes bloodshot. What were his words?

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When they meet again, he corners her in a cramped bathroom and pins her against the glass counter. His shirt is hiked up, and she sees a black tooth-mark tattoo on his waist.

Snow fills the sky outside. Under the hazy lights, he grips her waist and buries his face against her neck and shoulder. His eyes glisten with tears. "Zhou Sihui, I regret it."

He's no longer an unreachable star. He's sincere and earnest, his pride seemingly ground into the dust.

"Give me one more chance."

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That year, beneath the camphor tree, he blocks her path and gives her a lazy smile. "Want to date? The kind where we don't break up."

A heartbeat takes only 0.01 seconds. Forty-five degrees is the angle at which I look up at you, and falling for you is instinctive.

Good girl x rebellious, handsome boy

Secret crush · Rekindled romance · From university to the city

Coming soon, number two: Heartbeat

Blurb:

Secret crush · Rekindled romance

Su Hanyu is in a terrible mood on the day of her matchmaking date.

Her tire blows out, her wallet goes missing, and she has no idea where she left her phone. Water beads on her hair. She arrives five minutes before the restaurant closes. The whole place is quiet, with just one person standing by the window.

The light is dim. He has his back to the door, so she can't see his face. Su Hanyu walks over and hesitantly calls, "Mr. Chen?"

Chen Chao casually turns around with one hand in his pocket. His striking features and deep-set eyes unlock memories Su Hanyu had buried.

The boy had been arrogant and carefree, always doing as he pleased. Even when they broke up, he agreed without a second thought. He lounged on the sofa, chin tilted up slightly, pale fingers playing with a lighter. Its flame flickered on and off, casting a hazy light on his prominent Adam's apple.

Heavy snow fell that night. Cold wind poured in through the open window, chilling her to the core.

Chen Chao slowly lifted the corners of his eyes, then lowered them again. A careless smile played on his lips.

"Suit yourself."

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On the day of her next matchmaking date, Su Hanyu is stopped.

Everything around them is chaotic. Chen Chao grabs her wrist and pulls her into a private room, where the lights are blinding.

His grip on her wrist hurts. When she tries to push him away, she sees the faded pink hair tie around his wrist.

Chen Chao's eyes are red, and his voice is low, intimate, and dangerously seductive, making her heart race.

"I'm cutting in line."

"Choose me, okay?"

Many years ago, the girl worked up the courage to do something. She wrote these words in the boy's graduation yearbook, hinting at her feelings:

"That afternoon, the cicadas startled my heartbeat. Only I knew that what startled it was your carefree shadow, too."