The Pavilion by the Water Gets the Moon First

My next book, Moonlight Mail, is listed below. I've already started drafting it, so please add it to your favorites! *rolls around and begs cutely* o(≧v≦)o

Blurb for this novel:

Childhood sweethearts.

In the summer when she was five, Lin Xi followed her mother north for the first time. At the place where they were about to live, she met a boy her age.

She had a condition that was difficult to treat at the time, called emotional detachment disorder.

The little girl held onto her mother's clothes, following her around expressionlessly as she bustled about, until she happened to look up and met a pair of eyes secretly watching her.

Those eyes were round and shining, peeking out from behind the curtains as they gazed at her with curiosity and shyness.

Back then, Lin Xi had simply looked away with indifference. She had no idea that the two of them would one day be together for such a long time.

Many years later, on a whim, Lin Xi wrote on a piece of paper:

-When I was five, I looked up and saw the sun.

The heroine has emotional detachment disorder, and her recovery is a long process, so she is rather cold toward the hero at first.

The hero is a little ray of sunshine.

A coming-of-age story, beginning at age five.

No romance before adulthood.

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Blurb for Moonlight Mail:

[One-on-one, both each other's first / school life first, then city life / the hero's groveling redemption]

Everyone says the newly transferred Song Tinglan is beautiful.

Those who have met her say she is quiet and well-behaved, the good-girl type. Who could have guessed that the first big thing she would do after transferring was pursue Gu Chen, the guy no one dares to mess with, whose handsome looks are matched by a terrible temper that keeps everyone at a distance?

Song Tinglan is always smiling at him, her smile so bright that her eyes curve like a bridge, shining painfully bright. Gu Chen is blinded by it and warns her with a frown not to come near him again.

But little by little, he occasionally lets her bring him his homework.

Or pick up breakfast for him.

Then he lets her stay around him for a minute.

Later on,

when Song Tinglan talks to someone else between classes, he frowns.

when Song Tinglan doesn't ask him to eat lunch with her, his face darkens.

when Song Tinglan leaves right after school, he watches her retreating figure, lips pressed into a straight line.

After this goes on for a while, everyone assumes Gu Chen has already been won over by Song Tinglan. But then someone realizes that something seems wrong.

"Don't come looking for me again." Gu Chen stares impassively at Song Tinglan, drenched and miserable in the rain. "Don't contact me, don't talk to me, and don't let me see you again."

"I don't want to see you ever again."

After hearing him out, Song Tinglan calmly says just one word: "Okay."

No one knows who spread the story of this conversation.

Then people notice that Gu Chen really is alone again, and in a terrible mood. Song Tinglan hasn't come to school for several days either. Maybe she's too heartbroken.

Everyone understands. Of course Gu Chen is still the same old Gu Chen. He must have been forcing himself to tolerate Song Tinglan before, just to hurt her.

While everyone is gleefully gossiping about it, Song Tinglan suddenly withdraws from school and disappears.

No one knows that, that day, Gu Chen is the last to hear the news. Pale-faced, he searches the whole city in the pouring rain, but never finds a trace of her again.

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Later, at her own engagement party, Song Tinglan suddenly receives a letter.

It was written five years ago. The paper has yellowed, and on it are the strong, powerful strokes of a young man's handwriting. Dried tear stains mark the page, and every line is an apology.

Song Tinglan reads it without a flicker of emotion, then folds the paper in half and casually tosses it into a drawer.

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Gu Chen never expected their reunion to happen like this. Beneath the dazzling lights, Song Tinglan wears a formal gown he has never seen before, holding someone else's arm. Her gaze is unfamiliar as she passes slowly beside him.

She never looks at him once.

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The hero's groveling redemption.

School life first, then city life.

No romance before adulthood.

After they reunite, the heroine has gotten engaged, but later calls it off.

One-on-one, both each other's first

Theme: Cherish, anticipate, and hold on to love