He Stands in the Damp Rainy Season

A similar unrequited-love story, Looking at Him in Secret. Please add it to your collection

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"The damp rain soaks the rotting summer.

You are the rain, and I am the summer."

Almost every girl at school likes someone like him, dazzling as the stars and free as a wild wind.

Su Chenxia is no exception.

It was a damp, rainy day. Su Chenxia was alone, sheltering beneath the eaves. The rain and mist stretched on, soaking the entire summer.

She thought she'd have to wait there until the rain stopped. Then the boy came through the rain with an umbrella, his thick brows and dark eyes striking, his unbuttoned white shirt fluttering in the wind.

Su Chenxia's breath caught. She felt that the umbrella sheltered more than just a rainy day.

It also sheltered her dim, colorless girlhood, and the sound of her heart beating through an entire youth.

When you're young, it's hard not to meet a god with a soft heart. In the eyes of most girls, Chen Yizhou was that god.

The boy was pure and untainted, like snow on earth and the moon in the sky. You couldn't help wanting to get closer, but couldn't bear to take him away.

On Christmas Eve, everyone exchanged apples. Su Chenxia prepared one for Chen Yizhou too, but the boy was so popular that too many people wanted to give him apples. She was kept at a distance and never got the chance.

On their way home after school, Chen Yizhou dropped a hint as he spoke to her. "It's Christmas Eve today."

Su Chenxia was thinking the same thing. "Then you must have gotten lots of apples."

The cold of early winter seemed warmer under the dusky streetlights. Their shadows stretched across the ground, one tall and one short.

He suddenly stopped, thinking of all the girls who had eagerly tried to give him apples during the day, only to be turned down. He curled his lip. "Yeah, quite a few."

Her fingers tightened around her backpack straps. Suddenly, his shadow fell over her, and his dark eyes were deep and unreadable.

When he looked at her so unguardedly, Su Chenxia's heart couldn't help beating faster.

"But I've always had a strange quirk."

They were standing close. Su Chenxia held her breath. "What... quirk?"

"I can't stomach what other people give me."

"So," he held out his hand, his deep, dark eyes filled with her stunned expression.

Chen Yizhou curled his lips into a smile. "When are you giving me yours?"

Rainy days had always been Su Chenxia's least favorite weather. But after meeting Chen Yizhou, she looked forward to every rainy day to come.

Because he was a rare ray of light in her life.

She finally gave him that Christmas Eve apple, blushing and breathless, but remembered to ask him why. He didn't answer that day.

Then, one Christmas Eve years later, Chen Yizhou gave her an apple too. Inside the box was a note, containing the answer to the question she'd asked years ago.

The thin slip of paper bore the boy's neat, vigorous handwriting.

It made her heart bloom.

"You aren't someone else."

Synopsis for Looking at Him in Secret:

Liking Cheng Yuci is probably the sweetest secret of Xu Jinxia's life.

The boy was full of youthful spirit, shining brightly through an entire summer.

He was the good student who gave the teachers headaches, and the person all his classmates admired. Lots of girls at school had a crush on him.

He had a pair of beautiful eyes, deep and clear, with what looked like a sky full of stars in them when he smiled. Xu Jinxia never dared to meet his gaze openly. Whenever she looked at him, she was always careful and timid.

Sneaking glances at him had become a habit, but one day he caught her. Outside the window, cicadas sang without pause in the summer heat. He leaned slightly to one side, one hand propping up his temple, his expression relaxed. He looked at her with those deep, clear eyes, his eyes lifting at the corners and his lips curving into a faint smile. Amused, he teased her openly. "Seatmate, why do you always sneak looks at me? Come on, what's your motive?"

His smile was always so bright and dazzling. It fell into her eyes and scattered into her heart, letting her glimpse a ray of light from then on.

Her heartbeat grew louder in her ears, and for a moment she forgot how to answer.

At a class reunion years later, a group of classmates sat together reminiscing about high school. Only Cheng Yuci was curled up on the sofa, not joining in the conversation, but his gaze kept drifting to the side.

His friend caught him and figured out who he was secretly watching, then started teasing him curiously. "Why are you sneaking looks at Xu Jinxia?"

Cheng Yuci looked away from Xu Jinxia, a faint smile at the corner of his lips, and explained unhurriedly, "Because my wife told me to keep a low profile."

Xu Jinxia got together with Cheng Yuci in her junior year of college.

It was high summer, after the rain. The air was heavy with heat and humidity. The girl's cheeks were bright red, and she held a book over half her face as she quietly pleaded with Cheng Yuci, sitting across from her. "Could you stop looking at me?"

A line the boy had said one summer long ago suddenly came to mind. She gave it back to him. "Do you have some kind of motive?"

"I do." He smiled lazily and leaned toward her. His still-beautiful eyes, sparkling when he smiled, locked onto hers. His voice was so low it was almost a murmur against her ear. "I want to kiss you."

"That's my motive."

Rebellious and unconventional X gentle and well-behaved

Theme: Always keep your passion for love