Don't You Need to Be Comforted?

[Sweet, well-behaved, soft genius girl X seemingly proper, secretly sly and flirtatious guy]

1. Wu Heng, the great literary talent of the humanities class, became famous at the new-student ceremony when he gave a speech as the student representative. Refined yet unruly, proud and seemingly chaste, he had an air of distance that made people like him but not dare approach him.

One day, Wu Heng went to the rooftop for a midday nap and heard a familiar voice around the corner: "Lu Sijia from Class 25, Grade 11, I really like you..."

He saw a bright, spirited, pretty face. A little stutterer was earnestly saying a mushy love confession.

Wu Heng clenched his fists.

She put away the love letter. "Du Meng from Class 1, Grade 10, asked me to tell you to wait for her on the rooftop after school."

Wu Heng: ?

People read love letters on someone else's behalf now?

2. Jin Cancan, the top student in her grade at Qingyang High School, looks sweet and pretty. She seems like a good girl, but in reality she's devious, mischievous, and troublemaking. Her good-girl act is all an act.

She starts a little business at school, delivering love confessions on other people's behalf.

Business is booming, with customers coming one after another. Her biggest customer is Wu Heng. He's practically her cash cow!

Jin Cancan corners Wu Heng on the rooftop and follows the usual procedure, confessing to him with a love letter in hand.

She puts the letter away.

A glint passes through Wu Heng's foxlike eyes. He smiles faintly. "Sorry, I'm a serious person. I don't plan to date before college."

Until one day, she accidentally sees Wu Heng hand a love letter to a classmate. "Next time, have her read this one. I'll pay her a little more."

Jin Cancan: ?

Written on 2022.8.30.

[Ever since you appeared again, my youth has been all about you.]

Also known as: How I Won Back the Girl Who Said She Liked Me Yesterday and Forgot Me Today

Reader's Guide

1. Sweet slice-of-life school story, slow burn, a touch of ensemble cast, high school and college. No intimacy during the high school portion.

3. He has a secret crush on her and uses all sorts of tricks to win her back.

5. The heroine is an atypical little stutterer. She will recover.

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Marriage First, Love Later: A Clichéd Orange

Sweet-talking, ruthless instrument maker X seemingly innocent, secretly scheming young band frontman

On the day Zhu Erxia confesses to Ji Yingjia, Ji Yingru falls off the stage and is hospitalized with a broken bone.

Ji Yingjia is gentle to everyone but merciless to her.

After she confesses, Ji Yingjia chooses to go abroad. Before leaving, he tells her in the manner of an elder, "I've taught you personally for seven years, as both a teacher and a friend. Today, I'll teach you one last thing: forget me and start living again."

He rejects her and then asks her to go visit his younger brother in the hospital.

Though Zhu Erxia and Ji Yingru have been at each other's throats since childhood, she still peels a rotten banana for him at his bedside.

The injury has ruined the taste in his mouth, but he glares at her as he eats the whole banana.

Zhu Erxia regrets coming to see him.

-

Later, she regrets something else, too. It happens on a rainy night.

That day, Ji Yingru sits in his car, straightening his shirt cuffs over and over as he watches Zhu Erxia in the rain, with a little girl holding her hand.

Zhu Erxia saw him long ago. She asks the little girl, "That guy may be foul-mouthed and conceited, but he's good-looking. How would you like him for a dad?"

The little girl stares blankly at the man in the black car.

In the end, Ji Yingru opens an umbrella and gathers them beneath it, standing upwind to silently shelter them from the wind and rain.

His long fingers move slightly as he tilts the umbrella toward them.

The man's peach-blossom eyes meet Zhu Erxia's astonished gaze. He bends close, his tone as casually careless as ever. "I don't care whose child it is. You just have to be the child's mother. Marry me, Zhu Erxia."

Message: Study hard every day and become a useful, wealthy person