Spring and Her Cuteness

March is the bright, beautiful beginning of spring, but Zhu Sanyue's adolescence is gloomy and gray.

She is insecure, sullen, and quiet because of her dark skin and excessive height.

But her best friend, Yu Han, is her complete opposite. She's pretty, radiant, and sweet-tempered, like a real princess who deserves the very best the world has to offer.

Yu Han always keeps Zhu Sanyue's favorite chocolate in her pocket. Her phone wallpaper is a photo of her and Zhu Sanyue together. She's always the first to send Zhu Sanyue birthday wishes at midnight...

Zhu Sanyue doesn't know why Yu Han would want to be friends with someone as ordinary and unremarkable as her.

All she knows is that Yu Han is the only color and warmth in Zhu Sanyue's world.

And Zhu Sanyue never imagined that one day Yu Han would suddenly kiss her in a dim stairwell.

The unexpected kiss sends her heart racing. She flees in a panic. Before she can sort out her feelings or find the courage to say, "I like you too," Yu Han goes abroad and disappears from her world for good.

During the long, lonely years of growing up after Yu Han's departure, Zhu Sanyue grits her teeth and transforms herself.

She learns to do makeup, pretends to be at ease and outgoing in social situations, works hard to seize opportunities and build a career, and pushes herself to become better and better.

Years later, thanks to her exotic looks and exceptional height, the insecure, timid girl from her adolescence has become a supermodel, dazzling beneath the lights of international fashion shows.

Zhu Sanyue always imagines that one day, when Yu Han comes back, she will be able to stand before her with ease and say: I've become beautiful and successful. I've learned to be strong and brave, and I no longer fear strange looks.

But what she most wants to say is: I think I'm finally good enough to like you.

But Zhu Sanyue never gets to reunite with her. Instead, she receives a box stuffed full of love letters.

Yu Han's friend tells her they are her belongings.

After an accident, Zhu Sanyue is reborn and returns to high school.

Now she has the chance to make changes ahead of time. She thinks that this time, she won't be a coward who runs away.

But for some reason, even after the college entrance exams are over, Zhu Sanyue never again gets the chance Yu Han gave her in her previous life, when she kissed her in the stairwell.

It isn't until after the exams that she goes to Yu Han's house to look for her, only to be locked in a room against her will.

Her sweet, well-behaved, kind, gentle little princess apologizes as she shakily fastens handcuffs around her wrists with her slender, pale hands...

Zhu Sanyue: Where did my gentle, devoted, perfect first love go?

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Yu Han likes Zhu Sanyue. It's her little secret.

But for some reason, Zhu Sanyue suddenly changes one day. She becomes beautiful, confident, and accomplished.

Her dark skin gives her an exotic beauty, and her upturned fox eyes are always full of nonchalant amusement. She looks like a cool, commanding older woman, yet treats everyone with warmth and care.

Zhu Sanyue becomes popular. Yu Han knows she ought to be happy, but she can't control the dark jealousy churning inside her.

Zhu Sanyue used to have no one but her. They were each other's closest friends. But now every girl in class wants to be around her.

Especially after Zhu Sanyue becomes a social media influencer, drawing tens of millions of followers with her distinctive looks. Countless people online call her their wife.

It's as if the world has suddenly discovered the light that was always there in a pearl covered in dust.

Unable to suppress her feelings any longer, Yu Han tricks Zhu Sanyue into coming to her house after the college entrance exams. She fastens a pair of custom-made shackles around her with her own hands, childishly thinking that if she does this, Zhu Sanyue will belong only to her and no one else will ever steal her away.

She has already locked Zhu Sanyue up just as she wanted.

But the thought that Zhu Sanyue might hate her makes the tears fall helplessly first...

Theme: Real life offers no second chances. Make the most of the present.