A Heartbeat on a Spring Night

#Sensitive, well-behaved girl × cocky, bad-boy heir

#A secret crush comes true

1.

The first time Song Mingshu met Jiang Yu was a year ago, in Pinghe Town.

It was Lantern Festival. The streetlights in the alley suddenly went out, and darkness and terror surged over her, swallowing her whole.

Just then, a rabbit lantern appeared in her line of sight.

Like a drowning person spotting a piece of driftwood, she ran over to the person holding it, her face deathly pale.

After a moment, a lazy voice drifted down from above her. "Afraid of the dark?"

The tall, unfamiliar boy glanced at her through half-lidded eyes, then casually shoved the lantern into her hands. "Here. Take it."

2.

In her second year of high school, Song Mingshu transferred from Pinghe Town to Beijiang No. 1 High School and moved in with Uncle Jiang, who was paying for her education.

She wheeled her suitcase into the Jiang home. The tall, slender boy ignored Uncle Jiang's introduction, swept his cool gaze over her, and walked straight past without a pause.

Uncle Jiang told her that the boy was his son, Jiang Yu. He was a year older than her and in his final year at Beijiang No. 1 High School.

That night, Song Mingshu carefully wrote his name in her diary, stroke by stroke.

She had always remembered what he looked like, but he had no memory of her at all.

3.

Jiang Yu was Beijiang No. 1 High School's golden boy: wild and arrogant, admired by everyone, and answerable to no one.

Not long after the school year began, his friends were the first to notice that a quiet, obedient girl had appeared at his house. When they asked about her, the boy leaned against the railing and replied indifferently, "She's the daughter of a friend of my father's. We're not close."

Even when he realized Song Mingshu preferred to call him by his full name instead of adding a title, Jiang Yu barely reacted.

"Call me whatever you want."

"I'm not into people calling me big brother."

Later, he pinned Song Mingshu on his lap and kissed her.

His cool, pale fingers kneaded the sensitive, soft spot at the back of her neck, lightly and then more firmly. The boy pressed his nose to her petite one, rubbing against her in a lingering kiss. His husky, magnetic voice carried an almost imperceptible note of desire as he coaxed her:

"Call me Big Brother A Yu, and I'll stop kissing you."

*Secret crush comes true | Both leads are each other's first and only | Happy ending

*The heroine's fear of the dark is a psychological illness, a trauma response caused by something she experienced as a child. She will recover later.

*There is no romance between underage characters, and no intimate scenes before they come of age.

Coming soon: "Dedicated to the Butterfly" | Reunion after years apart | Second chance romance

1.

In her second year of high school, her father, He Zhoushen, lifted the "punishment" he had imposed on Jiang Ling. She was brought back to Beicheng and transferred to Guanghua Private High School.

At school, her half sister seemed to casually go along with a friend's comment that "she's a bastard child," letting the rumors spread unchecked.

Some people looked down on Jiang Ling; others waited for a chance to laugh at her.

But Jiang Ling never paid them any attention.

All she wanted was to graduate and come of age as soon as possible, claim what was rightfully hers, and leave this swamp without looking back.

2.

Cen Yuye was a famous young heir at Guanghua Private High School: a golden boy, wild and carefree. Girls drifted in and out of his life like clouds and flowing water, one after another, each hoping to be the one at his side.

Jiang Ling's sister was one of them.

Compared with her sister, who was surrounded by admirers, Jiang Ling was so invisible that no one would ever have linked her to Cen Yuye.

And yet, in the shadows of the music room on the top floor of the school building, the boy's cool fingers brushed against Jiang Ling's uniform. His thin lips curled into an almost-smile, his gaze dark and inscrutable as he leaned toward her seemingly ever-calm eyes.

"What a heartless little butterfly."

Later, when they broke up, Jiang Ling left without a sound, erasing every trace and deleting all their contact information.

As Cen Yuye had said, she really was heartless enough.

3.

Years later, they met again on a film set. Cen Yuye had become a top-tier star, famous both at home and abroad.

Jiang Ling did her best to avoid him and kept yielding ground, but the man refused to let up, closing in on her at every turn.

Cen Yuye bent toward her. Beneath his open collar, the dark blue butterfly tattoo on his collarbone drew the eye. His gaze was shadowed, and beneath his cool exterior lay anger. Through gritted teeth, he asked, "What, trying to pretend you don't know me?"

"You're the one who came back to me, little butterfly."

This time, don't think you can get away so easily.

In the seventh year of his career, after countless fans and netizens urged him to, Cen Yuye released his latest single, "Dedicated to the Butterfly."

It set the internet ablaze the moment it came out.

Because it was accompanied by an unabashed public declaration: Dedicated to my one and only butterfly.

[Reunion after years apart / Second chance romance / School and city life]

#Clear-eyed heroine × wild, carefree heir

#Renowned photographer × top-tier star

#Both leads are each other's first and only | Happy ending

Theme: Growing toward the sun