At Opposite Ends of the Spectrum [Launching in November]

A quick announcement! This one won't be very long, and I have plenty of inspiration, so I'm going to finish it this year! Planning to start at the end of November!

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[INTP heroine 🌈 INFP hero]

Song Xunyi is a girl currently in her first year of high school. An outsider in her class, she's used to keeping to herself and never drawing attention. In secret, she hides a fetish no one knows about.

Then, out of nowhere, Song Xunyi gets a confession.

It would be absurd enough to be confessed to by a boy she'd never interacted with before. Even more absurdly, he's Lin Huibai, one of the most talked-about students in their grade.

His family background, grades, and looks are all perfect, like a male lead in a school romance.

Song Xunyi has no doubt about how popular he is. With a face like that, he could win any girl's heart.

But she doesn't like him.

That brings us back to Song Xunyi's secret fetish: she likes watching men cry.

Especially handsome, gentle men who blush to the tips of their ears when they're shy.

When they look at her with tears in their eyes, she feels her heart suddenly race, her ears ring, and electricity surge through her body.

Song Xunyi doesn't want anyone to know she has this kind of fetish.

She doesn't like boys like Lin Huibai, who are confident and outgoing, admired by everyone, and always seem so laid-back and in control. He's such a show-off.

She asked Lin Huibai to meet her in the school's little garden and seriously turned him down.

Just as she'd expected, Lin Huibai smiled and admitted that he'd acted on impulse, then generously said he would still greet her if they ran into each other at school, and told her not to dwell on it.

They parted ways.

Song Xunyi watched him head off in the opposite direction. Curious, she followed him without thinking.

That's when she caught Lin Huibai crouched behind a thicket, crying.

The flawless, carefree top student and campus heartthrob everyone admired, the rich kid who seemed born with the world at his feet, had completely dropped the mask he usually wore. He looked like a little dog caught in the rain, his beautiful eyes red from crying.

He was utterly heartbroken, yet had forced himself to keep up appearances in front of her, only hiding away to cry once he was out of sight.

Song Xunyi trembled all over. A fierce, tingling numbness shot from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, leaving her unable to think clearly for a moment.

She called his name gently. "Lin Huibai."

"I'm sorry. I turned you down too hastily just now."

"I've thought it over again, and maybe we could give it a try."

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* In the visible light spectrum, red and violet light lie at opposite ends. Their wavelengths, frequencies, and energies are all completely different. In theory, the two kinds of light should never meet, but when they do, they create a brilliant rainbow.

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Song Xunyi x Lin Huibai

📖 Rational self x ❤‍🩹 Emotional overthinker

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💡 Please note:

1. 1v1. They confess and get together in the first chapter, just as the blurb promises.

2. Short story, around 250,000 characters in total.

Theme: In the end, love is always a journey of self-discovery. At last, I understood you, understood myself, and understood love.