Age Gap / Coming-of-Age Romance
#A fatherly boyfriend, coldly washing her underwear
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They first met on a rainy night.
Dressed in thin clothes, she wandered along the street corners and through the alleys. In the end, ravenous, she took the only five yuan she had and bought a cup of instant noodles.
As she paid, she brushed past a man in a camel-colored coat, talking on the phone.
Their eyes met briefly. The man didn't linger on her, and she heard him say in a casual tone, "Fine, then let's break up."
The old convenience store had no seats. She squatted beneath the eaves and ate noodles that hadn't softened all the way.
The door opened and closed, and the wind chime under the eaves jingled.
A shadow fell over her, and that camel color entered her view.
A chicken drumstick appeared in her noodles.
The man's lazy voice came from above her. "Eat more. You need to grow."
His figure soon disappeared into the rain.
The wound on her cheek throbbed with a steady ache.
She suddenly tilted her head back and called out, "Hey, will you take me in?"
"I mean, I'm pretty easy to look after."
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Later, she really did go home with him.
Through six years of living together, he indulged all her whims and tolerated all her mischief. She'd seen the tenderness beneath his playboy ways and the vulnerability beneath his aloofness. It was only natural that she fell for Cheng Ciyi.
But after writing "failed" on her confession book for the hundredth time, she thought, Forget it. She'd just be Cheng Ciyi's good little sister.
The night she decided to give up on Cheng Ciyi, her best friend took her to a bar to find men.
At one in the morning, she was sitting in a booth with a man on either side of her when she got a message from Cheng Ciyi: [Not home?]
A little tipsy, she slowly typed: [My friend had acute appendicitis, so I came with her to the hospital / crying.jpg]
Then, well-practiced, she picked a hospital photo from her album and sent it.
Annoying Guy: [Oh? Is that so?]
Unaware of anything, she ate a green grape fed to her by the man beside her, curled up in the corner, and continued playing the role of his sweet, attentive little sister as she typed:
[Yeah. Your stomach isn't great either, so make sure you eat regularly and drink less.]
Annoying Guy: [Drink less?]
Sui Wu: [Mm-hmm]
Sui Wu: [Why aren't you asleep yet?]
Annoying Guy: [I'm drinking]
Sui Wu: [?]
Annoying Guy: [Photo]
Annoying Guy: [I saw someone who looks a lot like you]
Sui Wu opened the picture and instantly sobered up, looking toward the diagonally opposite corner of the booth.
In the dim light, he sat alone at the bar, his glass gently rocking in his hand. His dark eyes seemed to smile, yet didn't.
At the same time,
she saw him staring at her. He tilted his glass toward her and tapped his screen.
The next second, a new voice message appeared on her screen.
"Want to come have a drink?"
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The title comes from a song of the same name.
The blurb will be fleshed out.
Blurb written 2022.08.28
Updated 2024.11.12
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