Commendation

[Bonus chapters are being updated; main story complete, happy ending, paragraph comments are open]

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1. Jiang Ningran first fell for someone at fifteen.

In the competition class, the teacher fixed her with an expectant gaze, but she couldn’t answer.

The boy lounged with one hand in his pocket, his long legs carelessly hooked over the bar beneath the desk. With a lazy, mischievous smile, he came to her rescue:

“Old Ruan, I don’t know this one either. Why don’t you explain it?”

When they met again, it was amid the glittering nightlife.

She was caught up in a risqué game and couldn’t get away, but she spotted him at a glance.

In that den of pleasure, a girl’s voice flowed like water. “I’ve never seen Brother Jia sweet-talk anyone. Maybe his girlfriend gets that treatment?”

A chorus of teasing rose around them. Si Yujia raised an unconcerned eyebrow and spun his lighter twice.

His gaze met hers through the crowd. His expression was calm and his interest seemed to have wandered elsewhere, as if the countless charms of the night meant nothing to him.

He was the center of attention, always effortlessly capable, doing everything on a whim.

He never imagined that one casual gesture in his first year of high school would hold a girl captive throughout her youth.

2. Jiang Ningran had a secret account.

“Day 178: The sunset on campus was beautiful today. I secretly caught a glimpse of the light on the basketball court.”

“Day 601: I love the line he quoted in his perfect essay: ‘Keep your gaze on the bigger picture.’ I’ve decided that if he’s the groom, I’m using that line in my wedding speech too qaq!”

“Day 1179: I guess I shouldn’t think about him too much. I lost focus on my homework for 0.3 seconds and translated ‘multilateralism’ as ‘assorted biscuits’… help.”

Her last post was from four years ago: “To the braver version of me in a parallel universe, I hope you succeed. As for the coward on this Earth… I think I’ll stop here.”

When netizens unearthed her long-hidden diary of unrequited love and sent it trending, Si Yujia had just completed a peacekeeping mission in West Africa and was flying home on a private jet.

“Boss, you really are something. No wonder you’ve been such a heartbreaker.”

His colleague teased him for being a menace. Si Yujia took the phone and silently scrolled through all three hundred-plus posts.

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Jiang Ningran had finally managed to recover the account she’d abandoned.

The trending topic had already exploded. In a panic, she started deleting the posts that made her want to die of embarrassment, one after another.

She was mechanically scrolling when her phone suddenly vibrated.

A new post from an account she had set to receive notifications appeared at the top of the screen

@Siiiyu-

The account had been silent for four years. Now it had posted a new line: “Keep your gaze on the bigger picture. There’s plenty of time.”

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| University campus romance

| The capital’s golden boy × a girl whose secret crush comes true

| “Keep your gaze on the bigger picture.”, From a regulated verse by □□

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In Time by Yan Ze

In the third year of Ming Jiayu’s work as a Doctors Without Borders physician in the Yeya region, after the fighting had paused, an international charity racing exhibition came to town.

It happened to be her day off, and a colleague dragged her along to watch.

The sun blazed overhead, engines roared, and a foreign woman beside her excitedly tapped her shoulder. “Do you know that Chinese man?”

Ming Jiayu looked toward the man she was pointing at

He wore a white-and-green racing suit and stood in the distance preparing for the race. The sunlight blurred his expression, but his tall, slender figure stood out in the crowd.

Her fingers trembled. She stared for a moment, then replied:

“I know him. He’s Huo Yao.”

Huo Yao, the name carved into her desk the year she took the college entrance exam.

1. Mint water × a carefree troublemaker

2. Given time, world peace | Given time, unrequited love comes true.

Theme: May there be peace in the world.