A Summer Fairy Tale [Secret Crush]

My next book will be "Warmer as the Winter Night Grows" (marriage first, love later). Please add it to your reading list!

(1)

On a summer day when she was seventeen, cicadas buzzed noisily as Jiang Xue wandered around the neighborhood, taking photos of flowers and plants.

A tall, handsome figure like a green bamboo stalk wandered into her frame. At once, the whole world seemed to fall silent, leaving only her own heart pounding loudly and wildly.

The next day, Jiang Xue saw the boy who had made her heart race again. He had transferred into her class. His name was Xiao Xinghe.

Jiang Xue lowered her eyes despondently and decided not to look at him anymore, because he was the childhood friend of Wu Mei, her friend from the class next door, and the boy she liked.

(2)

Xiao Xinghe was handsome, tall, and academically gifted. As soon as he transferred to Liucheng No. 1 High School, he became the school's top heartthrob.

Countless girls secretly admired him, but that was all they could do, because by his side was Wu Mei, his dazzling childhood friend. Xiao Xinghe was aloof toward everyone else, but smiled only at Wu Mei.

Again and again, Jiang Xue bloomed with fervent, hopeless love at the sight of his smile, keeping her feelings buried deep in her heart.

Their closest moment came when he nearly drowned. She saved him and gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while he was unconscious.

(3)

Years later, Jiang Xue and Xiao Xinghe unexpectedly ended up together.

While visiting Xiao Xinghe's home, Jiang Xue happened to find an award certificate in his bookcase: Champion of the Nancheng Youth Swimming Championships.

Jiang Xue: "?"

Xiao Xinghe wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and whispered in her ear, "Xuexue, that was my first kiss."

(4)

In many of her dreams, Jiang Xue saw the boy who was like green bamboo. Those dreams were always as cold and desolate as winter nights, without color or light.

She never imagined that even a cold dream could one day bloom into something brilliant.

Reading guide: The male lead and the heroine's friend never get together at any point, and the male lead was never in love with her friend.

Reserved girl x aloof boy, secret love comes true, from school to the city.

As a girl, she was like a delicate flower, reserved and proud, while he was a silent branch. It was hard for a proud flower to bloom on a silent branch, but fortunately, they reunited years later.

The story begins in summer, but doesn't end there...

Synopsis for the next book, "Warmer as the Winter Night Grows":

When Cen Nian was eleven, her deadbeat father abandoned her and her mother, running off to another town with his mistress and leaving the two of them to depend on each other.

At sixteen, Cen Nian blossomed into a beautiful young woman. Countless boys at school wrote her love letters, and she threw every one of them in the trash.

At twenty-seven, the mother she depended on fell seriously ill. To put her mother's mind at ease, Cen Nian decided to go on a blind date and marry on a whim.

Her blind date was the son of her mother's colleague. From her mother's description, he was tall, handsome, fair-skinned, and loved wearing white shirts.

On a bitterly cold winter's day, Cen Nian waited and waited at the blind date, until her match finally arrived. He was exactly as her mother had described, and she could even have praised him a lot more.

"Want to get married? For six months," Cen Nian said bluntly.

Her blind date answered just as briskly: "Sure."

When they left, the wind howled and snow fell heavily. Her blind date took off his scarf and gave it to her without saying a word.

When she got home, her mother cursed up a storm, saying her colleague's son had gotten back together with his ex and wasn't coming to the blind date.

Cen Nian: "? Then who was the person I went on a date with?"

Cen Nian thought that whoever he was, as long as he was willing to marry her, that was all that mattered.

A few days later, Cen Nian joined the other hotel managers to welcome the group's young master, Mr. Ai, the hotel's future owner.

As the hotel's "showpiece," Cen Nian stood at the front of the welcoming party. Looking at the hotel owner walking toward her, she thought he looked familiar.

When he came closer, Cen Nian got a good look at him. Huh? Wasn't this her blind date, Ai Xingyu?

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Ai Xingyu was the third son of Ai Liyong, chairman of the Ai Group. He was imposing and distinguished, and had once been an Air Force pilot.

He wasn't interested in business, and his family already had a capable eldest son, so there hadn't been anything for him to do. But his older brother was in poor health and had no children after many years, so the family decided to turn their attention to him.

He studied Cen Nian. He hadn't expected the young woman to be so calm and composed, with such a sweet smile, completely unfazed by the situation. She had quite a nerve and was a good actress.

Cen Nian also thought she had quite a nerve and was a good actress.

After they got their marriage certificate, Cen Nian did her job as a good employee at the company, then devoted herself to playing her role after work.

Thinking about how she'd divorce him after six months, go on living freely, and have a lot more assets, she felt happy in both body and mind.

But two unexpected things happened:

First, her mother's cancer diagnosis was a misdiagnosis. Second, Ai Xingyu didn't seem to have any intention of getting divorced.

At a team-building event, Cen Nian was framed and ended up deep in the woods with a sprained ankle.

When Ai Xingyu found out, he angrily suspended the meeting in progress and personally flew a helicopter to pick her up.

A senior executive objected: "Mr. Ai, she's just an employee. Is it really worth going to all this trouble? This meeting concerns a contract worth hundreds of millions."

Ai Xinghe sneered. "She's my wife! Even if she weren't my wife, even if she were just an ordinary employee, I'd still go pick her up myself! Without employees, where would we get contracts? Where would the company be?"

Independent and clear-headed heroine x stern but warm hero

Theme: Be brave and say you love someone