You Were the One Who Said We Should Pretend Not to Know Each Other

Shy, well-behaved, airheaded beauty gong × handsome, cool shou who says one thing and does another A sweet school romance where the shou spoils the gong In his second year of high school, Qiao Lu temporarily moved in with the Lin family. That was also the year he met Lin Chaoshen. At their first meeting, Qiao Lu looked at the tall, handsome boy before him, tugged at his hem, and softly called, “Brother Chaoshen.” The boy’s response was an unreadable glance, followed by a cool voice at his ear: “Call me Lin Chaoshen.” Qiao Lu: O-okay… Qiao Lu transferred to the high school Lin Chaoshen attended. They went to school together, and on the way, Lin Chaoshen warned him, “At school, don’t come looking for me unless you have to. Handle things yourself.” Qiao Lu: Pretend we don’t know each other. Got it! Things were awkward between them. Although they temporarily lived under the same roof, they were almost never seen together at school, aside from walking to and from class. Their classmates all assumed they weren’t close. Until one day, Qiao Lu was cornered in a secluded part of the school. Just before they could hit him, an unexpected voice suddenly rang out “Who gave you the nerve to lay a hand on him?” Lin Chaoshen’s expression was dark. As soon as he spoke, the once-arrogant crowd scattered in every direction. Qiao Lu felt Lin Chaoshen approach. He lifted his face and called out in surprise, “Brother Chaoshen?” Lin Chaoshen said nothing. His cool fingertips brushed Qiao Lu’s wet lower eyelids as he muttered, “You’re such an idiot.” “You’re so quick to call me ‘brother,’ but when you’re in trouble, you don’t know to come find me?” Qiao Lu: Huh? Weren’t we supposed to pretend we didn’t know each other? Lin Chaoshen: Did I ever say that? Note: Both the gong and the shou are adults when they begin dating! [Coming soon] "Hey, No Crying" - Why do you cry so much? - Cry again and I’ll kiss you. Clingy, spoiled crybaby × cold, taciturn, secretly flirtatious cool guy 1. Yunzhi moved with his remarried mother into a little courtyard at a villa in Nancheng. Next door lived a young man on his own named Shen Huaijin. He looked fierce and like someone you didn’t want to mess with. One afternoon, Yunzhi climbed a ladder to pick wild fruit from a tree. Through the wall, he saw Shen Huaijin sitting in the courtyard, looking up at him. Nervous under his gaze, Yunzhi stammered a little as he greeted him, his eyes turning red. Shen Huaijin merely gave him a cool glance and didn’t answer. 2. The next time Yunzhi spoke to Shen Huaijin was on a day of torrential rain. He’d forgotten his keys and was soaked through, sheltering from the rain beneath the villa’s narrow eaves. The cold rain had made him feverish. As his thoughts grew hazy and his consciousness blurred, Yunzhi heard a door open. Then a broad umbrella suddenly appeared overhead, blocking the rain, and a cool, toneless voice sounded beside him. “Come in.” Yunzhi looked up and met Shen Huaijin’s dark eyes. When he thanked him, his voice came out muffled, almost tearful. “…Thanks.” 3. Whenever Yunzhi saw Shen Huaijin, the other boy wore a cold expression. Yunzhi figured he probably disliked him, so when he learned that the perpetually empty seat beside him in his new class belonged to Shen Huaijin, he asked the teacher to move him elsewhere, not wanting to be a nuisance. That evening, after asking the teacher to change his seat, Yunzhi was stopped at the door by Shen Huaijin when he got home. “You don’t want to sit with me.” Shen Huaijin seemed angry. His cool features darkened, making him look even fiercer than usual. “Yunzhi, who do you want to sit with?” “Hm?” - Shen Huaijin had come from the Shen family in the capital to remote Nancheng for a brief stay. He was indifferent to everything around him, until A pretty, fair-skinned boy who cried easily moved in next door, and for some reason, the boy kept getting under his skin. Whenever the boy looked at him with those almond-shaped eyes, often rimmed with red, Shen Huaijin always thought he was about to cry. He cried so much, Shen Huaijin wanted nothing more than to shut him up with a kiss. Theme: Study hard and keep improving every day!