Name: Dear Miss
Author: Wu Lang

Synopsis

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The Guan family returns after 15 years to help develop their hometown, and Guan Peihan learns that her father has a new lover there.

She storms over to confront them, only to meet Qu Qing, the lover's son.

The young man stands there calmly in a white shirt and trousers, refined and composed, like a jade tree in the breeze.

In a corner of the old apartment building where the sunlight can't reach, cobwebs catch the dust.

A red plastic "Safe Travels" mat is stained with rainwater and grime.

In the narrow hallway, a loud voice is enough to stir up a cloud of dust.

Sixteen-year-old Guan Peihan holds up her Elie Saab fairy-tale dress in both hands, wearing Mary Janes. Her curls bounce as she storms around, and she glares at him, bluntly spelling out the difference between their worlds before laying down an ultimatum: "My old man is just like that, falling for one woman after another. He and your mom will be over in less than two months. We're not cut from the same cloth!"

But he says he'll look after her.

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His parents divorced early and bitterly, and Qu Qing only hopes to live an ordinary life.

First, he'll finish his studies step by step, then follow his teacher's advice and choose a major with good prospects. After graduation, he'll find a wife through an arranged introduction. As long as she's suitable, that'll be enough...

Then Guan Peihan appears, and some of the things he does are downright crazy.

Later, Guan Peihan gets a boyfriend, someone completely unlike him.

Seeing the two of them together hurts Qu Qing deeply.

When he has a fever, he murmurs in a daze, "Guan Peihan, I want to go home."

Qu Qing regrets saying it the moment the words leave his mouth.

But he's only human, and he hopes she'll say something to make him stay...

"Sure! Go, then."

Qu Qing's pale, cool cheeks are unusually flushed with fever. Wave after wave of heat racks his body, and even the slightest cool breeze makes him cough. Each time, his hand grips the bedsheet more tightly, pulling it into folds. He looks pale and weak, his dark eyelashes trembling nonstop.

The next day, Qu Qing runs away to Yuancheng.

The snow from last night hasn't melted yet. His fever returns, and he collapses into his mother's arms.

Has winter made your heart cold, too?

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When they meet again, she's still the dazzling rich girl, wearing layers of diamond necklaces and sunglasses by VERSACE perched on her hair, with eyeliner that seems to reach the sky.

He's a rising star in the tech industry.

They both harbor resentment.

Qu Qing can't let go. "Stay. We can put everything that happened behind us."

Guan Peihan proudly lifts her chin. "I'm not interested in playing house with you again. If I stay, all I'll do is find ways to torment you and boss you around!"

"Fine. You can do that."

"Have you broken up with him?"

Guan Peihan finds it hilarious. She's always been quick with a retort: "You don't even know that, and you want a woman with a boyfriend to live at your place?"

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At school: calligraphy prodigy x top student

In the city: art gallery worker x self-made entrepreneur

A story about an honest top student who bravely and humbly pursues love~

Reader's guide:

* Both leads are virgins. The heroine is affected by their separation, too, but she has no intimate contact with her ex.

* The heroine's mother dies of an illness. Her father does not have an affair while married.

* The male lead starts a business at university and won't live off his wife's family.

* He may seem quiet and plain, but as an adult, he has a high sex drive.

* No intimacy while either character is underage.

* Some descriptions of the heroine as a girl may come across as a little Mary Sue.

* The heroine is a little arrogant, willful, and does whatever she likes. She's incredibly lucky, comes from a good family, and is beautiful. She has a domineering father and a top-student boyfriend. She has her own tough ways of handling things and isn't above tattling. Her personality doesn't change much by the end.

* Set in a fictional world. The story is complete, though the plot will be revised after the main story, then polished after the whole thing is complete.

Theme: You make me feel something extraordinary