At sixteen, Zhou Ran met Xu Chenyi at a ski resort. The two teenagers shared the same interests and fell for each other at first sight. Unfortunately, their relationship ended before they graduated from high school, when they broke up because they were in different countries.
At twenty, Zhou Ran ran into Xu Chenyi again at a competition in Norway. Their old feelings rekindled, and they spent two years deeply in love, only to end up breaking up once more.
First love as teenagers, falling hard as adults. With Xu Chenyi, Zhou Ran never got hurt badly enough to hit rock bottom, but she did feel utterly disheartened.
She decided to let Xu Chenyi go for good.
At twenty-four, at Yunshan Station, Zhou Ran celebrated winning her fourth women's snowboard big air championship. Then, one night, she unexpectedly ran into Xu Chenyi while celebrating.
His eyes and brows were as handsome as ever, his manner gentle and refined, calm and reserved. Even after spending one impulsive night with Zhou Ran, he showed no awkwardness at all. He even smiled faintly and congratulated her on winning.
Zhou Ran was utterly calm. After sleeping with him, she was even more composed than he was. As she left, she glanced back with a smile and politely said, "Thank you for last night."
Then she closed the door and walked away without looking back.
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After two breakups, Xu Chenyi never expected to run into Zhou Ran again in such an unexpected way.
After a night together, she left without a backward glance, just as decisively as she had when they broke up two years earlier.
Outside the door, he heard her casually tell a friend who he was.
"Just some guy."
The feelings he had buried deep in his heart suddenly surged up, and the pain made him clench his fist.
When someone happened to pester her, he stepped in front of Zhou Ran and used the flimsy excuse of a fake dating agreement to keep her there. Half-serious and half-testing the waters, he asked, "Be my girlfriend?"
In their seven-day fake relationship, both Zhou Ran and Xu Chenyi had their own ulterior motives.
Only Zhou Ran stayed out of character. He, on the other hand, had meant it from the very beginning.
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Zhou Ran agreed to Xu Chenyi's fake dating arrangement to shake off a creepy suitor. She only wanted to finish the deal and leave as soon as possible. But when he saw through her motives, their seven-day agreement was canceled, and she had no choice but to keep playing her part.
She didn't want a relationship and assumed she and Xu Chenyi understood each other without needing to say it. But on the night before she returned home, the sixth day, she realized how he felt.
The distance she deliberately put between them couldn't stop Xu Chenyi from contriving reasons to meet her.
The Northern Lights in Finland were magnificent and dazzling.
She watched him arrive, weary from the journey, and kneel beneath the night sky to reverently kiss her ring finger. He got down on one knee, his voice restrained and choked with emotion. "Ranran, I still love you."
#They were only pretending, but he meant it#
#All his ulterior motives were part of a plan he'd been making for her for a long time#
#First love gets a second chance#
Outwardly warm, inwardly cool snowboarding prodigy (female) & deeply devoted, reserved retired snowboarding legend (male)
P.S.:
1. The author has never been abroad. The setting is based on the needs of the story, so please don't take it as a completely accurate reflection of reality.
2. The story focuses on the romance, with a little snowboarding (some of the details are made up and may have errors).
3. The heroine is not perfect. She is selfish, and at first only wants a physical relationship, not an emotional one.
4. The hero pursues the heroine, and he suffers. Readers who are fans of the male lead, beware.
5. They are each other's first love and remain faithful to each other. They spend time apart pursuing their careers.
6. One-on-one romance, happy ending.
7. My day job is incredibly busy, so updates are irregular.
8. To be added...
Theme: Never forget your original aspirations
Why is there such a mindless female rivalry?? Besides, after seeing so much, the level of torturing men is equivalent to pulling out a hair, which is not painful or itchy.
Go, go, go, happy Mid-Autumn Festival