Summer Solstice in December

[Nothing is impossible, like a summer solstice in December.]

[Mutual secret crush / Reunion after years apart / Mending a broken relationship / Mutual salvation]

Cold and aloof with a tsundere streak x clear-eyed and level-headed

1

The year Xiang Ye first met Cheng Yu, she was in her second year of high school.

The boy at the podium stood around 180 centimeters tall, with short hair and a clean, fair face.

Xiang Ye hurriedly looked up. The tenderness in his eyes and the carefree sunshine on his face were intoxicating.

She glanced at the only empty seat in the class beside her, then lowered her head again and again.

People from different worlds shouldn't sit together.

Later, on a midsummer night,

he held her hand, their fingers interlaced and clasped tight.

His warm breath brushed her neck. The boy's husky voice carried a teasing note. "How are we from different worlds?"

"Can't we touch each other?"

2

The news that Cheng Yu was transferring schools came suddenly. On the eve of his departure, a heavy snowfall began.

With red-rimmed eyes, Xiang Ye stood where the wind blew hardest. Gathering her courage, she asked only, "Will we... see each other again?"

Cheng Yu smiled softly and raised a hand to pull her hood around her, shielding her from the wind.

"Of course we will," he said.

Six years later, they met again at a magazine photoshoot.

By then, Cheng Yu had become a newly risen top-tier star. Xiang Ye had never imagined she would enter his world again.

As if sensing her gaze, Cheng Yu slowly walked toward her.

She hadn't even had time to say, "Long time no see."

Before the other person's cool, distant voice asked, "Are you here to deliver a letter, or get an autograph?"

3

Xiang Ye had long known the boy's jokes weren't limited to that one.

Then, in a deserted corner, he suddenly appeared and blocked her way.

The man's broad shoulders stood before her. His eyes beneath the baseball cap were dark and bright.

Xiang Ye was a little annoyed. "What are you trying to do?"

Cheng Yu lowered his head and took a deep breath, speaking half-jokingly. "I want to give you a hug."

Xiang Ye froze.

He didn't move. In a husky voice, he said, "A Ye, long time no see."

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1. Music producer x fashion designer. Their high school selves: little ray of sunshine x mildly autistic

2. One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending, from school life to city life

3. The information still comes from online searches

Please add my upcoming novel, "Falling Into the Fire," to your collection!

[Sweet, cute heartbreaker x cold, abstinent type]

[He has a secret crush!!! Maybe it'll be a sweet little romance... What fire is she falling into? The raging fire burning in Jin Wangshu's heart!!!]

1

On Nanjing University's list of its most beautiful women, Bai Yu could only take second place.

Not because she was less pretty than the woman in first place, but because of her character.

One of her psychology electives assigned students to find a boy and start a relationship within a week. Bai Yu finished the assignment in just one day.

The teacher promised full marks at the end of the semester to anyone who was in a relationship. Bai Yu was still dating someone at the end of the semester, too.

But she only got sixty points.

Because her boyfriend at the end of the semester wasn't the same one she'd had at the start.

She didn't get zero because the university didn't allow students to fail electives.

2

At the rate Bai Yu changed boyfriends, eligible candidates were running out fast.

Her roommate poked her shoulder. "Why not give the number one guy a shot?"

What number one guy?

The number one guy on the campus heartthrob list.

Jin Wangshu, a cold, abstinent male god whose presence sent a chill through anyone within five meters of him.

"I never chase people." Just thinking about how he kept everyone, friends and strangers alike, at arm's length gave Bai Yu the shivers.

Her roommate added, "I'll give you five hundred if you pull it off."

Bai Yu slapped the table and jumped to her feet. "Deal!"

If I don't go to hell, who will!?

3

Jin Wangshu was much easier to win over than Bai Yu had imagined. A crook of her finger was all it took.

But she couldn't get rid of him.

He wouldn't break up with her.

Bai Yu swallowed and negotiated with him, deeply reluctant. "Let's break up. I'll give you two hundred and fifty."

Jin Wangshu glared at her in disgust. "I'm not breaking up. I'll give you five hundred."

"..."

This was easy money. Five hundred, then another five hundred.

Bai Yu asked to break up almost every day, and every time she got five hundred. Then, on the very day they'd been together for exactly a month, Jin Wangshu accepted her breakup request.

Later, she heard that

Jin Wangshu had made a bet with her roommate that he could stay by her side for a whole month.

The wager was five thousand.

Before she could get mad, Bai Yu did the math.

Jin Wangshu hadn't made any money at all.

He'd actually paid her an extra two thousand five hundred.

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