Love Letter

[The End] Thank you to all the sweethearts who read my story! I hope we meet again someday. Heart! And now, a little ad for my ongoing sweet campus romance, Mad Dog's Kiss in Summer. Please add it to your collection after reading the blurb below. A deep bow~

At seventeen, Zhang Yichi had three wishes written in her diary:

1. Lose weight.

2. Get into Qing University and go to the same school as Sheng Lie.

3. Get to say a word to him.

But by the time high school graduation rolled around, Zhang Yichi had managed to achieve just one of them, and even that was only halfway.

While moving house one day, she found an unopened love letter.

It wasn't signed, but the handwriting was so familiar. It belonged to the person she'd secretly loved from her bleak, colorless adolescence right up to the present: Sheng Lie.

Zhang Yichi worked up her courage and found him. "Did you... ever write me a love letter?"

In a gloomy, rain-soaked alley, the boy once revered by everyone as a god still looked as handsome as ever. But now he wore a delivery rider's uniform, utterly at odds with the glory that had once made him so admired.

Sheng Lie froze, lowered his head, and denied it. "No."

Zhang Yichi had never pursued anyone before, but she didn't want to let all those years of affection go to waste. Swallowing her pride, she confessed her feelings, only to be rejected.

After that, the two became complete strangers.

They met again when Sheng Lie brought a business proposal to seek investment from one of her suitors.

The rich young man Zhang Yichi had once rejected seized the chance to humiliate Sheng Lie. Zhang Yichi happened to pass by and took pity on him, stepping in to save him.

Afterward, she tossed a bank card in front of Sheng Lie.

"I'll invest the money you need."

"From now on, you're mine. You only listen to me."

*

Later, at the Nasdaq Stock Market.

A promising startup went public, ringing the opening bell. When asked about the secret to its success, its founder, a man with an exceptionally handsome East Asian face, lifted an eyebrow. His cool, almost divine eyes settled on a dazzling figure in the distance, a hint of tenderness flickering in them.

He answered with three words: "Living off her."

--Whether you're basking in glory or down on your luck, you are the one I will always choose without hesitation. You are also the only light in my shadowy world.

[Humble at first, bold later; an ugly duckling who hides both kindness and a devil inside and fights her way to the top] Zhang Yichi × [A fallen scholar who went from campus heartthrob to loser to CEO; a face like moonlight and a heart that's shameless through and through] Sheng Lie. Each other's first love. Sweet~

----A little divider for my ongoing sweet campus romance, Mad Dog's Kiss in Summer. A deep bow, and thank you! Please add it to your collection----

The day Ku Xia returned to her old school to repeat her senior year after leaving an elite school amid rumors of "deliberately injuring someone and falsifying grades," Pei Qiye was on the stage accepting first place in the citywide exam.

The boy stood in the silent shadows, his coldness at odds with the noisy crowd gazing up at him.

Asked to share his study tips with visiting students from a rival school, he said flatly, "The competition was too weak."

"Holy crap, what an arrogant jerk! Who knows if his grades are real or fake? Their school has been caught cheating before. That so-called genius girl who was just exposed online graduated from there, didn't she? Some genius. More like a cheating hack."

The boy had never cared about his reputation.

He picked up the trophy he was about to throw away and hurled it hard at the people pointing at Ku Xia and laughing at her.

With blood still smeared across his lips, he ignored the dean of students, who had rushed over and issued him a disciplinary warning, lamenting that a student honored by the school had gotten into a fight in public. Instead, he lifted his dark, untamed eyes and smiled at her. "Big Sis, now we're the same."

That was the second time Ku Xia had met him.

But the way the boy looked at her made it seem as if he'd known her for years.

--No one knew that in the gloomy psychiatric hospital ten years ago, that summer held a secret from Ku Xia's past that only Pei Qiye knew.

She was a bright moon fallen into the mud, and he was a mad dog who had always been lost in the abyss.

Later.

In a small town thousands of miles away, where they couldn't meet after parting, a typhoon raged. The young man's soaked silhouette in the darkness was as earnest as it had been in his youth. His wild, proud spirit, never tamed by anyone, was willing to break itself apart. He lowered his eyes, his voice hoarse with restraint. "Big Sis, could you let me in?"

"I'll even be your dog. I'll do anything if it means I can stay by your side."

Ku Xia had once believed that her innate condition meant she would never be able to get close to this chaotic, noisy world.

Until the boy stood on a dazzling stage and looked past the deafening cheers toward the high platform in the corner where she sat alone, his gaze blazing with certainty. "Big Sis, I see you."

Pei Qiye, I see you too.

You're the only one I can see.

The world was noisy and colorless to her, and he was the only vivid color in her eyes.

[Disgraced and socially withdrawn autistic genius girl] Ku Xia × [A fake-cold, secretly unhinged boy who never reforms] Pei Qiye. Each other's first love. No love rivals, no melodramatic misunderstandings. Sweet, an unconventional older-girl-younger-boy romance with only a small age gap~

----------A divider for the blurb of my completed sweet romance, After We Broke Up, My Ex Became a Top-Tier Star and I Took a Job-----

Wen Gu joined a dating show for ordinary people.

She was the fourth female contestant, and had less screen time than the dog in the house. But a show that had been going nowhere suddenly became a huge hit.

[Ahhh! I love her sweet face!!!]

[Wen is so cool, I love her! That sweet, innocent tea-green look paired with her bossy B-queen personality is such a contrast, I'm obsessed!]

[Wait, isn't she the famous anti-fan leader of that top-tier star? She's really brave enough to show up on a reality show under her real name.]

When the internet dug up Wen Gu's main account and found that she was an anti-fan of the popular actor He Zhixin, the two people who had never crossed paths appeared together on the show.

The production team stirred up trouble, asking He Zhixin, who had never had a dating rumor since his debut, to choose one of the four female guests as his girlfriend.

The man raised an eyebrow. His roguish, languid eyes drifted carelessly toward Wen Gu. Just as everyone watching the livestream thought the "rivals' scenes" were about to turn into a "sweet romance," the passion in his eyes gave way to indifference.

"Sorry, none of them are my type. If I had to choose, I'd pick someone the opposite of Miss Wen."

The comments erupted. Everyone wondered how Wen Gu, who was famous for saying whatever was on her mind, would respond to a man who'd dismissed her to her face, yet was undeniably outstanding. The young woman simply dimpled sweetly and said in a soft, sugary voice, "What a coincidence. I like the opposite of Mr. He too."

Then she paused, shocking everyone with what she said next.

"Especially men who are all talk and have nothing else going for them."

--The biggest lie I ever told was becoming a coward against my own heart the moment we met again.

[Princess Wen, whose colder demeanor hides how deeply she loves] Wen Gu and [The shameless, flirtatious, irreverent peacock who turns into a childish fool in front of the person he likes] He Zhixin. Each other's first love. Sweet~

When old flames meet again, whoever lowers their head first loses.

Theme: Whether you're basking in glory or down on your luck, you are the one and only person I will always choose without hesitation