She Said She Likes Me

Wu Cheng and Pei Tiansong were opposites at Chuanhai No. 1 High School.

Their only interaction was when Wu Cheng waited to take the stage and read her self-criticism. The person giving the speech beneath the national flag was always Pei Tiansong.

Wu Cheng was the purest kind of bad student, having grown up scrabbling through the dark alleys and backstreets.

She was at the bottom of the class rankings, could make a living writing self-criticisms, and was unruly and unrestrained. The homeroom teacher saw her as a rotten apple, and her classmates saw her as garbage.

Pei Tiansong was the most outstanding kind of favored child of heaven, with a family background shrouded in mystery.

He had won so many trophies at competitions that he could barely hold them all. Clean-cut and aloof, handsome enough to make your knees weak, gentle and courteous to everyone, he was the darling of every teacher and the secret crush of every girl at school.

Everyone knew that Wu Cheng found everything about Pei Tiansong unbearable. Every morning when she opened her eyes, all she wanted to do was figure out how to put a sack over his head and beat him up.

The only good night she'd ever said to Pei Tiansong was, "I'll have someone take you out sooner or later."

But nobody knew that Wu Cheng had secretly liked Pei Tiansong for seven hundred days.

Someone sneered at Wu Cheng, "If Pei Tiansong is the brightest sun, then you're the mud even the sun refuses to shine on."

Wu Cheng only sneered. If they were as different as clouds and mud, then she'd drag the sun down into the muck, too.

But she hadn't expected that civility was this man's greatest disguise. Pei Tiansong wasn't a prince or a knight who slew dragons. He was the evil dragon who abducted the princess.

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She led a group of lackeys to stop Pei Tiansong after school, cornered him in an alley, and slapped a love letter covered in chicken-scratch handwriting against his chest.

"Turn your face toward me and let me kiss you."

She grinned at Pei Tiansong with carefree insolence as her lackeys egged her on.

Pei Tiansong held a black umbrella and, gazing straight ahead indifferently, walked around her.

At the graduation party, Pei Tiansong pushed her into an abandoned classroom.

Outside the classroom, people laughed and chatted, while her classmates called his name eagerly.

But Pei Tiansong sat on an empty desk, looking down at her as his long, pale fingers closed around her neck.

"Stick out your tongue and let me kiss you."

he said.

She just had to stand there and do nothing, and she could defeat the whole world in a second.

I'm so lovestruck, with nowhere to run.

-- From Pei Tiansong's weekly journal

Let him be strong as he likes. I'll sleep in his bed.

-- From Wu Cheng's error notebook (written under Pei Tiansong's duress)

1. Both are each other's first and only. Happy ending. No character is perfect.

2. No romantic relationships while underage.

Rebellious, tough, childish little punk at school x gentle-looking, dark-hearted hidden kingpin

Theme: My backbone will never bend, even if it breaks