The Day the Winter Solstice Arrived

[See below for the blurb of Autumn Night Love Poems. Upcoming titles: Wen Xia and Qingqing Ziqin]

[Rekindled romance / reunion after a long separation]

On the day of her thirtieth birthday, Bai Dongzhi went wild with her friends in a faraway city and ended up at the police station that night.

While her friend dealt with her troublesome younger brother, Bai Dongzhi stood outside catching up with her ex-boyfriend.

Bai Dongzhi had never forgotten what he said when they broke up.

"Bai Dongzhi, let's end things here."

"If we meet again, let's pretend we don't know each other."

So when a friend asked how they knew each other, Bai Dongzhi blurted out that they didn't.

She didn't notice the sudden darkness in the eyes of the man beside her.

It was the Winter Solstice. The cold winter wind howled, and Shu Wen rubbed his reddened nose and asked, "I heard you're getting married?"

After a long silence, Bai Dongzhi nodded. She would lie to him this one time.

Shu Wen thought that his story with Bai Dongzhi had ended long ago.

So why couldn't he let it go?

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A few days later, Bai Dongzhi saw Shu Wen again, at the foot of a snowy mountain, in a flower shop so small it could hardly be called a shop.

She was sitting at the entrance chatting with the owner, waiting for the rain to stop.

She turned her head slightly and saw someone walking toward her through the rain, holding an umbrella.

Shu Wen stopped beside her.

"The weather will be nice tomorrow. The flowers nearby are blooming beautifully. Would you like to go see them with me?"

"What do you mean?" Bai Dongzhi looked up and asked.

"I mean, can I pursue you again?"

-This time, I'll make the first move.

-No matter how many years go by, you're still the only person I love.

-On the day the Winter Solstice arrived, I reunited with my love in the third year of our separation.

We were still in love then.

Blurb for Autumn Night Love Poems:

[Childhood sweethearts / he falls for her in secret]

Ji Qingyan had been afraid of Ji Qingli since she was little.

In her memory, Ji Qingli, who lived across the hall from her family, always wore a cold expression and barely spoke, as though he wanted nothing to do with anyone.

Whenever they met, Ji Qingyan would politely call out, "Hello, Brother Qingli," while seeming timid and gentle. Then she'd grumble to herself for ages, wondering why he couldn't even give her a friendly look when she hadn't done anything to him.

She didn't know that whenever the young man saw her hurry away, he wanted to call her back and offer her the strawberry candies in his schoolbag.

He had bought those candies especially for her.

Ji Qingyan loved everything strawberry-flavored.

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Ji Qingyan was six years younger than Ji Qingli. After she started university, she rarely saw him, and never spoke to him.

Then one day, out of the blue, Ji Qingli took on the task of driving her home.

As their parents put it, they were neighbors, and it was on his way.

Who knew the atmosphere in the car would be so tense whenever they were together?

After a while, Ji Qingyan began to suspect that Ji Qingli might like her.

There were always different kinds of strawberry candies in his car. He remembered to bring her the new strawberry drinks from the milk tea shop next to her flower shop. After work, he was always heading over to see her, and no matter how late she worked, he would go home with her.

Ji Qingyan thought she must be imagining things because she was being tormented so much.

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Ji Qingli became a regular at the flower shop. Everyone said he was the shop's owner in all but name.

"Ji Qingli, do you like me?" she finally couldn't help asking.

The bespectacled man stopped arranging the flowers and pressed his lips together without answering.

"It's okay if you don't say anything. I've known for a long time that you like me."

When did she realize it?

On that sunny afternoon, when he asked why she had opened a flower shop.

The girl lifted her chin and said, "Haven't you heard the saying, 'Sell flowers in this life, and be beautiful in the next'?"

Ji Qingli chuckled, then murmured in a voice he thought only he could hear, "You're already beautiful."

That day, Ji Qingyan heard him.

-I love you. Every day, I can open the door and see you. Do you love me just as much, my little jasmine?

-Flower shop owner x university professor

-Six-year age gap, both leads are each other's first, happy ending

Theme: Tomorrow will be better.