As a Pair

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Good girl x rich playboy

[1]

Before she dared let her feelings show, Yuan Shuang called Li Sixing Number Four.

She recorded every meeting and every missed connection on a voice recorder.

She expressed her happiness in Chinese and described her disappointments in English.

There was always more of the latter.

[2]

During the semester Li Sixing returned from his exchange abroad, one convenient coincidence after another brought them closer.

Free-spirited and carefree, the young man sent a ball flying across the court. It shattered the backboard and injured Yuan Shuang’s fingers.

To make up for it, Li Sixing treated her to a meal. Her mother called to check up on her during dinner, and Yuan Shuang begged him to help her lie.

After kindly helping her out, he asked, not so kindly, “You’re so afraid of your parents. Are you having dinner with me, or running away together?”

Good girl Yuan Shuang always did what her mother said. She wasn’t allowed to date or change her major.

But Li Sixing was always finding ways to turn her against that: “You can do things even if your mom doesn’t approve.”

On the day they broke up, Li Sixing told her, “You can’t do things your mom doesn’t approve of.”

[3]

The fourth son of the Li family, Li Sixing, was delicate and pampered. He couldn’t stand even the slightest smell of smoke, and wherever he went, the place was guaranteed to be completely smoke-free.

When they met again, Yuan Shuang was at her cruelest. She deliberately came to him reeking of secondhand smoke, hoping the smell would make him stay away.

He coughed as if he were about to die, yet undressed her with his own hands.

Watching her in the shower, he smiled innocently. “Babe, wash it off.”

[4]

Li Sixing repaired the broken voice recorder, reaching across time to answer every moment of happiness and disappointment sixteen-year-old Yuan Shuang had recorded.

The first recording played: “Yuan Shuang, I’m here to claim Number Four.”

The heroine has a secret crush. They get back together after a breakup.

One-on-one, both first loves. A sweet romance with very little angst.

Theme: Love that lasts through the years