Unbearable

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Back in school, Qin Sang and Qi Yan seemed to belong to two different worlds. She was insecure and sensitive, while he was carefree and reckless.

But no one knew that, in Qin Sang's heart, Qi Yan, whose reputation was terrible in everyone's eyes, was the only light in her bleak, dark world.

She had watched him flirt and romance others with her own eyes, yet she only dared to repeat his name silently in her heart.

At the start of the second semester of her freshman year, Qin Sang lost her phone. Someone found it and turned it in to the campus radio station. When she went to retrieve it, her fingertips had turned white.

Because the back of her phone case bore these words:

Qiyan is the light of Qin Sang.

That night, beneath the dim shade of the trees, Qi Yan kissed her and smiled nonchalantly. "You like me so much. Want to give us a try?"

In the end, she couldn't make Qi Yan, a playboy, turn over a new leaf for her. Teenage love comes and goes in a flash.

Years later, she was still struggling to make ends meet. Beneath the dim lights on a rainy night, the man stood with his umbrella over her, his features calm and gentle. Lowering his eyes, he said softly, "Sangsang, come home with me."

Later on,

Rumors spread that Qi Yan had finally settled down for a girl. Everyone teased him, saying it was a rare sight and that they all wanted to meet the beauty he'd kept hidden away.

Leaning back on the sofa in his usual lazy pose, he replied with a softness in his expression, "She's precious. Not just anyone gets to meet her."

[In my bleak, dark world, I was sinking deeper and deeper, until you shook starlight from your shoulders and came into my world. From then on, my world was filled with light.]

Sweet romance / School and city life / The playboy turns over a new leaf

Rising business tycoon x high school teacher

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When Cen Ying was seventeen, her parents died unexpectedly, leaving her all alone. She was forced to move from the imperial capital to her grandmother's home in Nancheng.

On her first day in Nancheng, she met the boy next door.

He wore a black T-shirt and stood tall, holding a black umbrella. He glanced at her with an indifferent expression, then quickly looked away.

Yet that brief glance caught her heart completely off guard.

Before long, Cen Ying learned the boy's name.

Xie Jin was a bona fide genius, winning so many gold medals in competitions that he could hardly keep count. He could have attended a better high school, but chose to stay in Nancheng.

During the school basketball tournament, he scored a three-pointer in the final ten seconds to win the game for his team.

While everyone cheered and celebrated, she hurried over with a bottle of water she'd prepared in advance and asked cautiously, "Does your knee hurt where you hit the ground?"

Xie Jin stopped, his voice utterly calm. "That's none of your business."

At the teachers' farewell dinner after the college entrance exams, Xie Jin seemed like a different person, accepting every toast from his classmates.

Seeing how flushed he was, Cen Ying went over to check on him, but he pulled her into a nearby alley and pinned her against the wall.

His gaze burned as his low, husky voice brimmed with a plaintive accusation. "You told me to wait for you in Nancheng. I stayed, but you took so long to come back, and now you don't even recognize me..."

Cen Ying froze.

A childhood playmate's face flashed through her mind, gradually merging with the face before her.

So the promise they made as children really had kept him waiting here for more than a decade.

*My heart fluttered the first time I met you.

Theme: Let go of your insecurities and become a better version of yourself