More Than Just This Summer

Serial novel: Uncontrolled Surrender

Coming soon from the same series: Rose’s Protection. Please, sweet angels, add it to your favorites! I’m begging you, here are some flowers!

Blurb

The childhood sweetheart beats the guy who shows up out of nowhere

[Cool, confident, handsome guy * cheerful, sunny girl | music student * art student]

1.

As a child, He Jingchen was a quiet boy who barely spoke.

A bright, lively girl entered his world, bringing light and joy.

After that came more than a decade of secret affection and careful restraint.

2.

He shed his youthful awkwardness and became an arrogant, dazzling prodigy, hailed by countless people as a genius.

When Qiao Xingmian was caught secretly taking pictures of He Jingchen,

He Jingchen hid his excitement. Holding the photo between his fingertips, he said in an arrogant, cocky tone, “I never knew. Have you been secretly in love with me?”

Qiao Xingmian avoided his gaze and hid her feelings. “Don’t get the wrong idea. I just like how you look in those white clothes. You look like a ghost.”

He Jingchen nodded, automatically disregarding her explanation. He raised an eyebrow. “I get it. I’m handsome, so of course I attract people.”

3.

Later, the boy shed his youthful awkwardness and became a man who could stand on his own.

He Jingchen cornered her, desire in his eyes impossible to hide. “Xingxing, after all these years, it’s not too much to collect a little interest, is it?”

Sensing danger, Qiao Xingmian pressed a hand to his chest. “So what do you want?”

He Jingchen’s eyes curved. Resigned, he buried his head against her neck and spoke in a voice as plaintive as a little boy’s. “I want you.”

“So when are you going to give me a proper title?”

A little scene:

A popular post at Pingzhou No. 9 High School: “Tell us about the moment you felt your heart flutter most as a teenager.”

Qiao Xingmian: On a sweltering summer afternoon, after the school sports meet, countless balloons floated above the field. I stood among my cheering classmates.

He ran toward me through the crowd, his smile bright. Carefully, he slipped a piece of candy into my pocket, then looked into the distance and said, as if offhand, “Moments this happy are even better when I’m by your side.”

In that moment, the summer breeze was hot and passionate, and my heart raced wildly.

The love we felt as teenagers was innocent and shy, and it would last through every day of the years to come.

You have always been the one irreplaceable heartbeat of my youth.

Life holds more than one summer. We’ll have countless summers of our own.

Notes:

Both are each other’s first and only love. Happy ending. Updates daily at 6 p.m.

Roughly: 65% school life + 35% city life (they don’t date during the school arc)

A fun, slow-burn school romance, with no evil female rival, a bit of an ensemble cast, and a separation in the middle.

Blurb screenshotted on 10/10.

The author’s notes usually include little scenes, so sweet angels, please don’t mute them!

Blurb: Rose’s Protection

A cool, love-struck genius * a resilient, scheming girl

At eighteen, Jiang Zhuzhi was trapped in a bleak, miserable life, struggling through pain.

In that alley, she met the person whose life would be intertwined with hers forever.

Jiang Yichi rescued her from a group of thugs, then leaned lazily against the damp wall behind him, his figure looking forlorn.

Not far away, the girl stood in a pool of blood, lifting her head with a resolute gaze.

Through the rising smoke, she could just make out the crimson glow at his fingertips and the sinister eyes beneath his tousled hair.

The girl reached out to wipe the blood from him.

The boy tugged at the corner of his mouth and said harshly, “I’m not a good person.”

After transferring to Pingzhou, she suffered every kind of bullying.

At a basketball game, Jiang Yichi walked up to her in front of everyone.

The boy was bold and carefree, his smile bright. “Do you like me?”

“Stay with me. I can protect you.”

People said that someone like Jiang Yichi was dazzling and proud, loved no one, and changed girlfriends faster than he changed clothes.

Jiang Zhuzhi thought he wouldn’t care about her.

But on her eighteenth birthday, the boy carefully kissed her cheek and made a heartfelt wish.

“I hope Jiangjiang is happy forever.”

City arc

They met again five years later.

Jiang Yichi had shed his youthful awkwardness. His expression was cold as he stood proudly in the middle of the crowd.

The moment their eyes met, Jiang Zhuzhi waved at him as if they were still familiar.

A friend beside him nudged him and reminded him, “Your friend is calling you.”

The man swirled the wine in his glass, glanced at her, and answered nonchalantly, “I don’t know her.”

Bitterness welled up in Jiang Zhuzhi’s heart. She knew he blamed her for leaving without a word.

Even parallel lines will cross one day.

Unable to give up, Jiang Zhuzhi tried everything to get close to him.

One drunken night, Jiang Yichi leaned against the girl’s shoulder, gently tracing the tattoo on her ring finger.

It was a blood-red rose.

He silently wept, pulling at the corner of his mouth in self-mockery. In a hoarse voice, he asked, “Do you still love me?”

“If you don’t, don’t tell me. Keep lying to me, and stay by my side.”

[“When I was eighteen, I planted a rose, hoping it would bloom throughout the summer.”

“Jiangjiang, as long as you’re willing to come back, I’ll forgive you.”]

She will always be the heroine of my world.

A genius who bends for love * a rose girl who grows against all odds

Notes:

Happy ending, sweet ending

Mutual redemption / mutual secret crush

Screenshotted on 2023/3/21

Theme: Work hard to achieve your dreams.