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On her eighteenth birthday, Shi Li gathered her courage and confessed to Duan Jingqi, whom she'd been secretly in love with for two years.
It was dusk. The striking young man stood on the rooftop, the setting sun framing his tall figure from behind.
He turned her down with impeccable courtesy: "I'm sorry. I hope you meet someone better in the future."
Shi Li's heart and lungs ached unbearably. "Could you really not even give it a try?"
Duan Jingqi was proud by nature. He shook his head and refused without hesitation.
Shi Li thought that was the moment their story ended, but then they both got into the same university, and she heard the ridiculous rumor that Duan Jingqi had fallen for her.
"..." Rumors stop with the wise. She told that to everyone spreading them.
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On Duan Jingqi's birthday, he got drunk, and by chance Shi Li ended up sitting beside him.
After a few rounds of drinks, he touched her hand.
Shi Li froze. Her last shred of reason made her push him away. "Even though I really like you, I'm not the kind of person who takes advantage of you when you're drunk."
Then she heard Duan Jingqi lazily say two things.
"The rumor is true."
"I'm not drunk."
After hearing those two lines, Shi Li dared to ask him, "Then... can we hold hands?"
"We can," Duan Jingqi said, turning his head to kiss her, "but let me kiss you first."
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