Secret

[My next novels, Airport and Waiting for You in the Snow, are open for advance reservations.]

Song Liqing had a secret hidden on the school's rooftop. One day, the school was renovated, and the secret was exposed and spread like wildfire online.

At eighteen, Zhou Qi was the darling of heaven: bold, flamboyant, and the brightest person in any crowd.

Song Liqing liked him and knew everything he liked.

But Zhou Qi had sat beside her for two years and called her by the wrong name the entire time.

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The class group chat, quiet for a long time, suddenly came alive again as everyone guessed which genius had written it.

Song Liqing quietly turned on Do Not Disturb and pretended nothing had happened.

Then one night, Zhou Qi, who had been silent for ages, suddenly came back to life and sent her a message.

Song Liqing had just started to feel sleepy, but she was instantly wide awake. She stared at the message several times, unable to believe it. Assuming he'd sent it to the wrong person, she replied with a question mark.

A voice message popped up from him.

"Song Liqing, I know it's you."

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Zhou Qi had always been the secret of Song Liqing's girlhood. On the rooftop, she wrote: Get Zhou Qi into bed, then dump him.

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[Reader's Guide]

1. Both leads have only ever been with each other. The female lead has had a boyfriend, but they never had a physical relationship.

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Here's the blurb for Airport, now open for advance reservations:

Gao Xia first met Sang Ye at a 7-Eleven. He was dressed all in black, his zipper pulled all the way up and his baseball cap pulled low. He picked up a bottle of Suntory.

As he took out his money to pay, his ID card slipped out and fell to the floor. He crouched to pick it up, holding it in his hand. Gao Xia caught a glimpse of it without meaning to.

Sang Ye.

The notorious bad student from the affiliated high school, a rule-breaker surrounded by rumors.

Cicadas shrilled. Gao Xia saw him at the convenience store all summer, and every time, he bought nothing but Suntory.

Gao Xia didn't know when her feelings began to change. Maybe it was during one of their increasingly frequent conversations, when she suddenly wanted to reach out to him.

After graduating from high school, Gao Xia wrote Sang Ye a letter, but never received a reply.

After that, they went their separate ways, north and south, and lost all contact.

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It was only years later that Gao Xia learned that during all the years they never saw each other, Sang Ye knelt for hours before the main hall of Hengshan Temple every year, praying for her safety and peace in every year to come.

[A breeze travels a thousand miles + I'll wait for you at the spaceport where the starships dock]

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