Wisdom Teeth

[Weibo: @Jiang Jiang Embraces the Moon]

[Living-under-one-roof trope | Mutual healing | Mutual pining]

Carefree, dazzling heiress x gorgeous, tough, and tragic bad boy

In the summer of 2012, Xia Mei got a wisdom tooth.

There's a silly old saying that the person you meet when your wisdom tooth hurts is the true love of your life.

1.

Xia Mei was sixteen when she first met Cheng Qingyan.

Her father pointed to the boy beside the woman and said, "This is Cheng Qingyan. You can think of him as your older brother."

Xia Mei hated that woman, and she hated her son, too.

So later, she came up with an idea.

"I know how to make my dad and your mom split up."

"Oh?" The boy looked down at her with casual disdain, his voice a little hoarse. "And what's that?"

Xia Mei blinked, eyes full of mischief. "We date."

2.

Mingzhe High School had two famous students.

Xia Mei was at the bottom of her class, beautiful and dazzling, bold and unruly, a completely incorrigible troublemaker.

Cheng Qingyan was ranked first, clean-cut and cool, aloof and free-spirited, the light in countless girls' hearts that could illuminate their entire youth.

Everyone knew they were on bad terms, always at each other's throats.

Later, someone saw them getting into the same car after school.

A friend asked, "What's going on between you and Cheng Qingyan?"

Xia Mei: "We're not close. We just happened to be going the same way."

Until one time, Xia Mei got drunk and her friends took her home.

The doorbell rang, and the door opened.

Cheng Qingyan stood there in his pajamas, water dripping from his hair. It only made his sharply defined features look more languid and careless.

Her friends' eyes nearly popped out of their heads.

Cheng Qingyan raised an eyebrow lazily and put one arm around Xia Mei's waist.

3.

In the end, things between them still came to nothing.

Years apart, the old lovers met again... at a family dinner.

At the dinner table, Xia Mei raised a glass to Cheng Qingyan, her voice perfectly even. "May everything go smoothly for you, and may all your wishes come true, big brother."

The man clinked his glass against hers and drained it.

As if they had both completely forgotten that reckless affair in the past.

That night, though, when her father knocked on Cheng Qingyan's bedroom door with hangover medicine,

Xia Mei's waist was clamped tightly in the man's arms, her back pressed against the door. In the scramble, her hand struck his cheek.

The man calmly answered the older man outside while kissing her softly. He reached up to lock the door and whispered, "Shh, baby."

#We won't love in the dark. We'll run away together in the light#

Reading guide:

1. Both are each other's first love, happy ending

2. Cover art by @Little Zhu Loves Drawing, many thanks to the artist

Theme: Love takes courage