Moonlight Mail

[One-on-one, both pure; school first, then city life; the heroine pursues him after he regrets it]

Everyone says the newly transferred Song Tinglan is beautiful.

Those who have met her say she's quiet and sweet, the good-girl type. No one expected the first big thing she would do after transferring to be pursuing Gu Chen, the guy no one dares to mess with. He has a handsome face, but his awful temper keeps everyone at a distance.

Song Tinglan is always smiling at him, her smile bright, her eyes curving like a little bridge, dazzling enough to sting. Gu Chen feels the sting and warns her with a frown not to come near him again.

But little by little, he occasionally lets her bring him his homework.

Or pick up breakfast for him.

Then he lets her spend a minute around him.

Later on...

Song Tinglan chats with someone else between classes, and he frowns.

Song Tinglan doesn't ask him to have lunch with her, and his face darkens.

Song Tinglan leaves right after school, and he watches her go, lips pressed into a thin line.

After a while, everyone assumes Gu Chen has finally been won over by Song Tinglan. But then someone realizes something seems off.

"Don't come looking for me again." Gu Chen stares impassively at Song Tinglan, drenched and disheveled in the rain. "Don't contact me. Don't talk to me. And don't ever let me see you again."

"I don't want to see you anymore."

After hearing him out, Song Tinglan calmly says one word: "Okay."

Somehow, this conversation gets around.

People notice that Gu Chen really is alone again lately, and he looks awful. Song Tinglan hasn't been to school for several days either. Maybe she's too heartbroken to show her face.

Everyone understands. Of course Gu Chen is still the same Gu Chen. He'd only been putting up with Song Tinglan to get back at her.

Just as everyone is eagerly gossiping about it, Song Tinglan suddenly withdraws from school and disappears.

No one knows that, that very day, Gu Chen is the last to hear the news. Pale-faced, he searches the entire city in the pouring rain, but never finds a trace of her.

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Later, at her own engagement party, Song Tinglan suddenly receives a letter.

It was sent eight years ago. The paper has yellowed, and on it are the strong, confident strokes of a young man's handwriting, along with dried tear stains. Every line is an apology.

Song Tinglan reads it without a flicker of emotion, folds the letter in half, and casually tosses it into a drawer.

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Gu Chen never imagined their reunion would look like this. Beneath the dazzling lights, Song Tinglan wears a gown he has never seen before and walks past him with someone else's arm linked through hers. Her gaze is unfamiliar.

She never looks at him, not once.

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He pursues her after regretting it.

School first, then city life.

No romance before adulthood.

After they reunite, the heroine gets engaged, but later calls it off.

One-on-one, both pure.

The blurb for my next novel, "Purple Grapes," is below. If it sounds interesting, please add it to your favorites~

[Gentle beauty x favored son of heaven]

The year Lu Jiangnan married Tan He, she was twenty-four.

At the wedding, someone whispered that the two of them were a poor match. Lu Jiangnan couldn't agree more. That night, she took the initiative and said to Tan He, "Don't worry, I won't try anything with you. I understand it's a marriage in name only, without the relationship."

She'd cleared the air to save them both the awkwardness. Lu Jiangnan thought Tan He would be happy she'd said it. He'd been forced into this too, after all. This was for the best.

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Lu Jiangnan was brought to the Tan family when she was eight. It was an unpleasant misunderstanding. The Tan family had no desire to take in a girl from a remote mountain village, but they couldn't exactly send her back.

So Lu Jiangnan stayed with the Tan family. She never forgot that she was an outsider. Whenever she was with Tan He, the true favored son of heaven, she would lower her eyes and agree to anything he asked without question. That lasted until he was sent abroad in his first year of high school.

By the time he returned, Lu Jiangnan had graduated from college. Years apart had turned them into little more than strangers who knew each other, and when they met, they had nothing to say.

So how had she ended up marrying him? Lu Jiangnan lay on her back in bed, her head throbbing.

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On the third day of their marriage, just after Lu Jiangnan finished work, someone stopped her at the company entrance.

"Mom and Dad asked us to come home for dinner."

Tan He wore a dark, long trench coat. Tall and long-legged, he lowered his eyes and spoke to her calmly.

Lu Jiangnan looked up in confusion, unused to the idea. "...Mom and Dad?"

"Mm." The refined, upright man bent slightly to face her. Looking at her, he said, "We're married now. Don't you have to call them Mom and Dad?"

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Marriage first, love later.

A mutually pampering, everyday romance.

One-on-one, both pure.

Theme: Love requires acceptance and respect.