I Await the Spring Rain

[Complete] Thank you for staying with me. [After a long drought of life, I await one spring rain.]

1

When Cheng was in his second year of high school, the Cheng family brought a girl up from the countryside. Her name was Jing Hechun.

Raised at a tea plantation, she wore tattered floral clothes and her hair in two towering braids. She was all country bumpkin and silly girl.

The young master of the Cheng family wanted nothing to do with this sister who had appeared out of nowhere. Little did he know that she seemed harmless in public but was cunning behind closed doors, and had his parents wrapped around her little finger.

No wonder she had been known as someone who could “brew a fine pot of tea” since childhood.

Ordered to look after his new sister, the eldest Cheng son had an idea. He turned to his best friend and asked, “We’re brothers, right?”

2

Zhai Yilin of Huaicheng Private High School: president of the city student union, head of his school’s student council, and top student in the international division.

Excellent grades, impeccable manners, and the undisputed flower on a high peak. No one had ever plucked him.

Only his friends knew that beneath his angelic exterior, he was cold and extreme.

He was also famous for dealing with green tea girls, an expert at seeing through fake innocence. His tongue was so sharp he spared no one, and the exotic reptiles he kept at home scared off several delicate, lovesick admirers.

When his friends heard that the eldest Cheng son had dumped his green tea sister who had appeared out of nowhere on Zhai Yilin, they all waited for the show.

Until, at some point, a male green tea started appearing around them.

Zhai Yilin: Ya Ya is so wonderful. Your brother just doesn’t know how to appreciate her.

Zhai Yilin: I’m so jealous of him. I wish I’d grown up with Ya Ya as her childhood friend, too.

Zhai Yilin: Did your childhood friend get the wrong idea? He seems to dislike me.

Jing Hechun: ...

Everyone else: ...? Are you all right?

3

The day Jing Hechun saw through all his disguises, she realized she had trusted the wrong person.

She avoided him, but had a reason she couldn’t leave. So she pretended to forgive him. When she was in a good mood, she’d talk to him a little; when she was busy, she could hardly remember he existed.

Zhai Yilin took her acceptance as the key to becoming lovers.

On confession day after the college entrance exams, he stayed up all night, arriving at her door early with flowers in his sweaty hands. Instead, he was met with her leaving without a word.

As the blood boiling in his veins cooled, he typed, “Playing me?”

All he got in reply was a glaring red exclamation mark.

4

When they met again at university, Zhai Yilin was still every bit as polished and dazzling, surrounded by people who admired and envied him.

Jing Hechun alone thought he was just a dog who wouldn’t leave her alone and liked to bite.

This time, she couldn’t shake him off, and couldn’t bear to, either. All she could do was patiently teach him to obey.

On a rainy night when a typhoon hit, with the wind howling and the air damp, they ended up staying together.

She hadn’t expected she’d have to teach Zhai Yilin which bed to crawl into, even when it came to sleeping.

“You have your own bed now,” Jing Hechun reminded him. “You’re not allowed in mine anymore.”

Zhai Yilin’s gaze wandered brazenly over her. He laughed hoarsely. “You’re treating me like a dog.”

She curled her lips, her tone teasing. “But you enjoy it, don’t you?”

He didn’t deny it. He even lowered his head, his voice tender. “I’m more than happy to.”

His gaze finally settled on her lips. Switching roles in an instant, he asked with a smile he tried to keep restrained, “Then can the dog have a bite?”

“...”

Reading guide:

Quirky tea-plantation girl x scheming, reserved rich young master

Sweet on the outside, dark within, then sweet again x sweet on the outside, dark within, then very naughty

1. From high school to university, they never lose touch. It’s all thanks to Z10 shamelessly sticking around.

2. Ya Ya is neither country nor silly!

3. A light, sweet romance, with just a tiny bit of groveling and dog training later on, for fun only.

Welcome! Please check out my upcoming novel, Moonquake:

Ever since Wen Qianlai joined Zhizhen Tech, she’s been having one mishap after another, and her reasons for taking leave are all over the place.

In just one month, she’s suffered burns, been in a car accident, twisted her ankle, gone through a breakup, gotten hives, and been trapped in an elevator. She’s racked up an astonishing number of unlikely misfortunes.

The HR manager couldn’t take it anymore. During a work report, they laid out her “crimes,” seething with indignation.

At the head of the conference table, a man calmly lifted his eyes and took the file.

Pei Jinyan, founder of Zhizhen Tech, is a sought-after young entrepreneur in the field of intelligent control. He built a company worth hundreds of millions in just five years, establishing himself with independently owned intellectual property.

Everyone at the company knows their boss is a perfectionist who nitpicks everything and won’t tolerate even a speck of dust. He’s like a block of wood without a hint of feeling.

“All right. Let me have a look.”

-

A month ago, Wen Qianlai ended up at his company by pure chance.

A month later, his employees were taking up arms against her.

It was the seventh year Pei Jinyan had known her.

And the seventh year he had put up with all her unexpected mishaps.

At university, they were the two people in their research group who got along the least.

One was a trouble magnet who couldn’t sit still for a minute; the other was her cold-faced senior who followed behind her, cleaning up her messes.

Wen Qianlai forgot to clean the lab bench; he did it.

Wen Qianlai used up the last pipette; he restocked them.

Wen Qianlai’s old romantic entanglements came knocking; he stood in their way...

Wen Qianlai had seven or eight boyfriends over the years, yet everyone assumed Pei Jinyan was her real boyfriend. He picked her up from class every day without fail and walked her back to her dorm, day after day.

In truth, no one knew better than Pei Jinyan that they were teacher and student, friends, but could never be lovers.

They hadn’t seen each other for years, and now she was getting into trouble even more often.

People said she’d make up any excuse to get time off. Only Pei Jinyan knew she was perfectly capable of doing all those things for real.

Later, Wen Qianlai not only kept her job, but started having far fewer mishaps. Everyone thought she’d finally turned over a new leaf. When the research and development staff learned the truth, their jaws hit the floor.

To keep her from getting into a car accident or falling on her way to work, Pei Jinyan personally drove her. To stop her from staying up too late and disrupting work, Pei Jinyan personally lulled her to sleep.

For a moment, no one could tell who was working for whom.

Later, when they heard the boss was living and eating with Wen Qianlai to keep an eye on her progress, everyone calmly enjoyed the gossip. Whatever. That was just the boss and the boss lady’s way of having fun.

-

If you’re wondering how Pei Jinyan managed to put up with her for all these years, he wasn’t born with an endless supply of patience.

Then one day, he started thinking of her as a kitten, and everything made a lot more sense.

Kittens are born to tear up the house, so he should give her something with a better feel to sharpen her claws on.

Kittens go through rebellious phases and won’t obey. He should cuddle her gently, never scold or hit her.

Taming a kitten couldn’t be easier.

Little by little, Pei Jinyan realized there was an even better way.

To deal with a disobedient kitten, all he had to do was keep kissing and hugging her, and hold her while she slept every night.

“A cat is the only animal that has finally domesticated humans.”

Careless girl vs. fake block of wood, true romantic

Theme: The world is vast, and there are so many things she wants to do.