Summer Sun

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Blurb:

[Stubborn, slow-to-warm civil servant x gentle, straightforward village secretary]

① Chu Xia took the civil service exam for her boyfriend's hometown so she could be with him after graduation. But on the very day she received her acceptance letter, the jerk dumped her, saying, “My hometown is too poor.”

Should she still go?

Chu Xia gritted her teeth. “I'm going. I want to see just how poor the place that produces jerks really is!”

She arrived alone in an unfamiliar place for work, and on her very first day her supervisor tore into her. Chu Xia was close to tears. “Can I still quit?”

② Lu Xiao had always had things go his way. After graduating from graduate school, he passed the civil service exam for his hometown's municipal bureau and was soon promoted to the youngest section-level official. Then an assignment order sent him to serve as the first village secretary in a deeply impoverished village.

On the first day of their induction training, Lu Xiao saw a young woman being chewed out by her supervisor, on the verge of tears. Unable to stand by, he stepped in to help. Little did he know that once he got involved, he would never be able to get away.

When he heard Chu Xia was going home for a matchmaking date, Lu Xiao drove 1,200 kilometers overnight and declared his claim right in front of her prospective match.

The usually impeccable, refined Secretary Lu wagged his tail like a gentle big dog. “Xia Xia, take me in.”

Chu Xia was utterly defeated.

③ Village secretary Chu Xia and First Secretary Lu Xiao led the villagers in growing greenhouse vegetables, raising free-range chickens, and selling their goods through livestreams to increase their income. They eventually discovered a rare hot spring and built a resort hotel, turning the once dusty little village into a famous tourist destination.

The villagers all teased them: “We've all escaped poverty and gotten rich. When are you two getting married?”

#When the villagers' income doubled, Chu Xia became Lu Xiao's girlfriend.

#When the villagers' income increased fivefold, Chu Xia became Lu Xiao's fiancée.

#When the villagers' income increased tenfold, Chu Xia and Lu Xiao registered their marriage!

#From then on, summer here meant not only a blazing sun, but also you, just as radiant.

One-on-one, both leads are virgins, happy ending. Their exes are just background characters, and neither lead slept with them.

Realistic fiction about life in the civil service, and the villagers' daily journey to prosperity.

Theme: Happiness is earned through hard work