Little Bell [School Life]

Pre-release modern romance, The Flowers You Planted, a happily-ever-after version of the rented-room genre

Novel blurb below

Six months after transferring schools, Lin Dang caught the attention of the class delinquent.

The delinquent was her classmate, Cheng Yan. He pretended to be her cousin and asked to borrow money from her.

She had low vision, not a low IQ. She could tell who he was,

but she was afraid he would bully her if she called him out, so she could only give him the money.

She had never expected to get the money back. She only wanted them to leave each other alone,

but to her surprise, Cheng Yan returned it five and ten yuan at a time.

On the day he finished paying her back, Lin Dang couldn't help speaking to him:

"Cheng Yan, I recognized you. You have a faint lemon scent.

Are you having some kind of trouble? I can help you. Please stop lying to people."

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Cheng Yan thought Lin Dang wasn't visually impaired. She was just plain stupid.

What lemon scent? That was the smell of the huge bag of no-name laundry detergent he'd bought for ten yuan.

What trouble? He'd just run out of money to go to an internet cafe.

And what was that about studying hard so you could change your fate? It wasn't that he couldn't get into the best university. But damn it, even if he studied himself to death, he'd never be worthy of a pampered young lady like her.

He couldn't stand her clinging to him anymore, so he rejected her harshly:

"Yes, it's because of your eyesight. It'll even be hard for you to find a job someday."

She cried, and he regretted it.

He had never thought of her as a burden. He only hated that he wasn't capable enough to take care of her.

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Bonus scene:

Cheng Yan and Lin Dang got into another argument. He left her by the roadside and turned to walk away, moving fast and with no intention of looking back.

There were lots of people on the street. Frightened by all the noise, Lin Dang began to cry and kept calling out to him: "Cheng Yan, where are you? I can't feel where you are anymore."

He hadn't actually gone far. He was less than ten steps away from her.

The next day, he spent a whopping fifteen yuan on a pink bell and hung it on his shabby backpack.

The bell jingled and clanged. Whether he was ten steps away or a hundred, everyone would know he was coming.

One-on-one, happy ending, sweet romance

Clingy, teary-eyed heroine x gloomy, irritable hero

The hero has a secret crush

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Pre-release blurb for The Flowers You Planted

Zhou Jingming supported Lu Ning for three years.

After Lu Ning got into university, she didn't want to trouble him anymore or have anything to do with him.

On the day they parted, just as before, he asked for nothing.

Lu Ning found a summer job and planned to pay him back in full once she had arranged her student loan.

But she got stuck at the household registration booklet stage. Her mother refused to let her take out a loan to go to school.

With nowhere else to turn, she went to Zhou Jingming again.

On a rainy night, Zhou Jingming had just finished delivering packages and was a complete mess.

Rainwater still clung to his hair, dripping onto his cheap white undershirt and soaking it through, revealing his muscular build.

Lu Ning sat on the old sofa with her eyes lowered, not looking at him.

After a long silence, she spoke softly. "Could you help me for another six months? I'll pay you back in full once I've earned some money from my part-time job."

Zhou Jingming said nothing. He took out his old phone and transferred five thousand yuan to her through a payment app. "There's still two thousand left. I'll send it to you once I get paid next month."

Lu Ning gripped the phone tightly, not daring to open the app.

She had already blocked him, and he was the one who had bought her this phone.

Theme: Seeing the sixpence scattered on the ground is how we learn to see the moon.