Blurb: Both virgins / A playboy turns over a new leaf / Unrequited love from a lowly position / The man pursues the woman later
Xia Qing has a birthmark on her forehead.
From childhood onward, she has endured jeers calling her an “ugly girl.”
Lu Shu is her opposite in every way: the campus heartthrob at N University, a favored child of heaven.
While she works on problems alone in a sweltering classroom, he spends his days indulging himself, surrounded by flirtatious girls.
No one would ever have imagined the two of them together.
Until a love letter came to light, revealing Xia Qing’s three-year crush on Lu Shu.
Her humble words, written painstakingly by hand, were read aloud to the laughter of her classmates.
Everyone treated her like a joke.
But in front of everyone, Lu Shu wiped away her tears with his thumb and gently teased her in his carefree manner. “But I think... you’re a really good person.”
From then on, the two grew close, and the young girl’s feelings spiraled like a vine.
One day, Xia Qing happened to overhear Lu Shu talking with his friends. His voice was lazy and careless.
“I’m just messing around with her. You think I’d take it seriously?”
The cicadas’ cries in summer came to an abrupt stop.
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Later, Xia Qing went far away.
She had surgery to remove her birthmark and grew into a graceful beauty. She became a renowned concept artist, with no shortage of admirers.
A project required her to negotiate a partnership with a major game company. There, she saw Lu Shu again. Her feelings were no longer as passionate as they had been in her youth, and she kept her distance.
When the company manager asked if her creative inspiration was connected to her first love, Xia Qing’s heart was still. “I don’t know. I’ve never had one.”
On the road she always took home from work, a flashy dark-blue sports car blocked her way.
Lu Shu leaned against the car. He no longer looked as carefree as before; his eyes were red, his voice low and hoarse. “You’ve never had a first love?”
“Then what was I?”
Theme: Live earnestly and work hard.
