Crossing the Border

That summer, this northern city was battered by one typhoon after another, and the sky was always gray.

A brash, arrogant boy poured himself into the game on the basketball court, becoming the brightest sight on campus.

Su Rong stood by the window and happened to meet his gaze. She watched him smile, turn around, jump, and shoot, tracing a perfect arc that seemed to make half a circle around her heart.

She wrote a name on her drawing paper: Lin Zhixing.

He was handsome, smart, and came from a good family. He was the star of the school, a darling of heaven.

He was someone she only dared to admire in secret.

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Her young crush came to nothing. Eight years later, they met again.

She was a comic artist with millions of followers. He was a taciturn race car driver.

The sky hung low with rain as cars sped around the winding track and hurtled toward the finish line, driven with a reckless intensity that made hearts race.

She seemed to transmigrate through time, returning to that summer when he took off his helmet and deliberately didn't look at her.

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Unwilling to give up, Su Rong drew closer to Lin Zhixing bit by bit, testing the waters until they finally became a couple.

On a stormy night, she gathered her courage and invited him in from outside her door: “Would you like to come in and change your clothes?”

When he didn't answer, she turned away, disappointed. But the man with the dark look in his eyes suddenly pinned her in a corner and kissed her passionately, murmuring hoarsely over and over: “Su Rong, you're the one who came after me first. Don't regret it.”

No one knew that when everyone had admired him, he had once liked her. After falling from his pedestal, he fell in love with her again, unable to control himself.

The morning is full of storms in the heart of summer.

Countless hearts of wind beat in the stillness of our love.

A seemingly sweet but inwardly rebellious comic artist heroine and a cool race car driver hero

1. The modern poetry quotations are from Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

2. A dangerous story with a fatal allure: they don't want to love, but can't help falling in love.

Theme: It's easy to add flowers to brocade, but hard to send charcoal in the snow.