When I Can't Sleep, I Listen to Your Songs

[Amateur Stage Designer x Top-Tier Star, A Daydream Romance Where a Secret Crush Comes True]

One day, a question trended on Weibo:

“How is the person you had a crush on in high school doing now?”

Cheng Zhiyi spent an entire afternoon carefully reminiscing about all the little things from high school. In the end, she replied with just one sentence:

“Xuan Wei and I sat together in high school.”

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In high school, Cheng Zhiyi was quiet and gentle, and the teachers liked her best.

So when a new student transferred into her class, she was assigned to sit with them.

The new student, Xuan Wei, was a little unusual.

He had become famous at a young age and already had countless fans. One hit song had made him a rising singer known across half the country.

Cheng Zhiyi had seen him at his most dazzling in videos, on television, and atop the new-song charts. She had never imagined he would come to sit by her side.

From then on, whenever the feelings of a young girl kept her awake at night, she fell asleep to his songs.

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The program for that year's school graduation gala was accidentally leaked, and the auditorium filled with his fans.

In a thin black T-shirt, his skin pale and cool, his shoulder blades slender, he held the microphone and sang to himself, “Once upon a time, there was someone who loved you for a long time.”

Through the bright stage lights, he cast a casual glance toward the audience.

That one glance made her heart ache with longing.

She mingled with the fans and brought him a bouquet of blue irises, with an anonymous confession card tucked inside.

It vanished without a trace.

And so they went their separate ways.

Years later, when they met again, he was a top-tier star with tens of millions of fans.

At his concert, she held a bouquet and swayed among a sea of iris-blue, moving with the rise and fall of the glow sticks.

Amid the crowd's calls for an encore, he suddenly gripped the microphone and looked straight into her eyes. “My last song is for my first love. 'My Deskmate, Zhiyi.'”

[You shone so brightly that I couldn't forget you for so many years]

#Even if a thousand stars should shine in the future, brighter than tonight's moon, none could match the beauty of this night#

Reader's Note:

1. The story moves from school to the city, with more than half set during the school years.

2. It is set in the entertainment industry, but there is not much fan-culture content. The male lead is not an idol, but an original singer, so dating is not a career-ending scandal.

3. There is no romance during their school years. They reunite after a long separation and rekindle their relationship. The story is told from the female lead's perspective, but the crush was mutual.

Theme: Healing