Love Is Hard, But Meeting You Is Enough

[I'm not great at writing blurbs, so just make do with this] Meeting you was both the greatest blessing of my life and its most painful misfortune. - At eighteen, Zhou Hanyin picked fights with the whole world and was rude to everyone. People nicknamed her the "she-devil," the one who brought bad luck to anyone who crossed her path. As the class monitor in Zhou Hanyin's new class, Song Shengyan went to great lengths to get close to her and help her fit in. Zhou Hanyin had secrets and a past. Everything she showed the outside world was a shield. All that year, Song Shengyan kept trying to break into Zhou Hanyin's life, doing everything she could to get her to open up. At last, the college entrance exam was over. Zhou Hanyin thought she'd escaped her nightmare and that a new life was just around the corner. But the moment she walked into her dorm, her beautiful plans fell apart. Song Shengyan had reappeared in her university dorm, claiming she'd done poorly on the entrance exam. Song Shengyan had already made her bed and unpacked her things. Sitting on her own bed, she watched Zhou Hanyin come in as though she'd been waiting for her all along. She smiled and waved at Zhou Hanyin. "Hi. Long time no see." Over their four years at university, Zhou Hanyin gradually lowered her guard around Song Shengyan. She began to accept having her by her side, and even started imagining a future with her... until an anonymous exposé appeared online... After five years of entanglement, the two of them reached a temporary end when Zhou Hanyin left without a word. Five years later, Song Shengyan and her former classmates had succeeded in building a business together and made quite a name for themselves in their industry. In the conference room, the woman sitting across the long table was showing off her manicure to the woman beside her. The matching rings on their fingers cut Song Shengyan to the core. From beginning to end, Zhou Hanyin ignored Song Shengyan's gaze. Five years of being together day and night, followed by five years of longing, had come to nothing but the other woman's distant greeting: "Ms. Song." With an old love standing before her again, Song Shengyan wanted to reclaim their past and longed for a fresh start to their story. But it seemed there was no longer a place for her in Zhou Hanyin's future. Time never stops moving, and the seasons keep turning. After going around in circles, it is still you I meet. Planes don't crash easily, and cruise ships don't just sink, yet two people who could clearly love each other can still miss each other so easily. - "Being ignored and treated as invisible is where bullying begins." "It's like being trapped in a swamp. No matter how much you beg for help from the people watching indifferently nearby, it's all in vain." "Song Shengyan, it hurts so much." - "Love is hard. It's enough that we met." !!! Please note before reading !!! 1. They do not get back together. 2. There is salvation, but it's all part of a scheme. 3. The story gets very melodramatic. (In short: I love you, you hate me. I stop loving you, and you chase after me. I've already run off with someone else.) 4. Readers who require both leads to be virgins, beware. Theme: Make peace with the past