From campus to city life / Rekindled love / Devoted, cocky bad boy x resilient, clear-headed girl / Unrequited love becomes mutual
Blurb:
Jiang Siqi is an untouchable young master.
Zhou Zhou is a pitiful girl living with the Jiang family.
They are worlds apart, like parallel lines. No one ever imagined there could be anything romantic between them.
But only she knew that in the stifling heat of summer, after a basketball game...
The lemon soda the boy pressed to her cheek was cold to the bone, and effortlessly set her heart racing.
Zhou Zhou hid her feelings well, turning every little detail into something sweet to savor.
Until a rainy night, at a birthday party.
The boy blew out the candles. In the dim light, shadows carved sharp lines across his face. In front of everyone, he smiled and said, "I hope I get what I want this year."
The teasing and cheers went on like a rising tide.
Jiang Siqi was the first to open the school belle's gift.
Zhou Zhou tossed away the gift she'd bought, identical to hers, her chest heavy with bitterness. Then she quietly slipped away.
Her young love came to an end without ever beginning.
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Years later, they met again.
It was the season of endless rain, with the smell of damp earth hanging in the mist.
Under the hazy glow of a streetlamp, Zhou Zhou stood drenched, her clothes clinging to her. Mud stained her cotton-linen dress, yet she stubbornly lifted her chin and met his gaze without backing down.
Jiang Siqi wore a black T-shirt, his dark hair falling loosely over his forehead, his features sharp and defined. He caught her slender wrist in one hand, bent his neck, and kissed the tiny mole at the center of her forehead. Leaning close to her ear, he smiled, his expression unreadable. "Zhou Zhou."
"Break up with him, okay?"
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"Jiang Siqi. Si as in 'refined,' qi as in 'fork in the road.'"
The boy was used to being an uncrowned king, looking down on everyone with careless indifference.
Until he met Zhou Zhou.
She was a hard bone he couldn't get his teeth into.
And the girl he would love most in his life.
Notes:
Unrequited love / Foster-family trope / Mutual salvation / Intense push and pull / Both are each other's first love
The male lead is more than a little crazy, with an extremely possessive streak. Be warned.
Blurb written on March 19, 2025, and saved as a screenshot.
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