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Ji Yu was both proud and dissatisfied with herself, until she met Meng Fangzhou, who never wasted energy doubting himself.
At first, she saw him as her imaginary rival.
Later, she treated him like a stress reliever, and took the opportunity to study his components and properties.
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#What's it like to fall for your imaginary rival...?#
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In his second year, Meng Fangzhou entered the biology competition again and made it all the way to the national finals.
The night before he left for the competition, their group chat was flooded with messages of good luck from friends. Ji Yu alone said nothing.
Meng Fangzhou replied to everyone's well-wishes, then turned away and packed his things dejectedly.
But when he opened his backpack to organize his study materials, he found a copy of The Odyssey inside.
It had a beautiful cover, with the plastic wrapping removed and a bookmark tucked between the pages.
On the bookmark, a sailboat pushed through the waves across a sea crowned with towering swells. On the right side, someone had written in tiny, neat script:
"At first, we rowed ourselves. Later, a fair wind sent us on our way."
A week earlier, someone had told him that ancient seafaring merchants discovered the secret of the monsoon, using its winds to sail to distant oceans.
Now, as he did everything he could to win, she was wishing him a little luck too.
He smiled and took a photo.
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The next morning, Ji Yu woke up and opened her social feed. A new post popped up, geotagged at Jingcheng Coastal Airport:
[ARK: Becoming the summer monsoon]
The confident, spirited boy about to set off had crushed underfoot the excuse of hoping for an outside chance.
"Tch," Ji Yu said with a smirk, softly addressing the screen. "What a show-off."
But who could say that luck wasn't victory's companion?
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[2]
A few years into their relationship, Ji Yu asked Meng Fangzhou, "The excitement wears off, and people get tired. When you're too exhausted to deal with anyone, doesn't it sound even more tiring to keep adjusting to each other?"
Meng Fangzhou thought it over and gave her an answer.
"The word 'work at' makes it sound like you have to try really hard and exhaust yourself doing something. In a relationship, the phrase 'work at the relationship' seems to take away some of the romance. But I don't think that's true."
"Every day I'm with you makes me happy. Tomorrow will always be worth living with even more effort than today. I'll love you, and I'll love you even more."
"Ji Yu, I'll always be devoted to nurturing the love between us."
It was both a romantic confession and a solemn promise.
The young man's certain words rang in her mind, and a flower-covered train rumbled through Ji Yu's heart.
Every day in the future, they would keep discovering one another, adding new notes to their own stories and listening as the other spoke honestly about who they were.
And she, brave, wise, and strong, was willing to face life's trials hand in hand with him.
If they made it through, that would be the greatest luck of all.
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[Please check the reading guide~]
1. A first-love story about two teenagers, one couple, slow-burning and gradual.
2. A light ensemble cast, focused on everyday life and the pure, beautiful friendships of their school years.
3. The main story takes place in high school, with college bonus chapters.
4. Two ambitious, slightly self-important teenagers. The heroine, Ji Yu, is proud, demanding of herself, a perfectionist, and struggles with impostor syndrome. The hero, Meng Fangzhou, has an unbeatable mindset and is open and fearless.
5. Some details are fictionalized. Please don't compare them too closely to real life.
6. Bonus chapters about the other characters can be found in the author's column, "Beyond the Story."
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Note:
* "At first, we rowed ourselves. Later, a fair wind sent us on our way." - Homer's The Odyssey
* Impostor syndrome, also known as the tendency to deny one's own abilities, is when someone has objectively achieved success or accomplishment but believes they are incapable of succeeding, feels they are deceiving others, and fears being exposed. - Baidu Baike
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Theme: Youth is a race that never looks back
Finished reading! This book allowed me to see more women's thoughts. The first thing that impressed me was the word "Xuetu" used to describe Wang Xin. It made me realize that the derogatory "things" we often describe often contain feminine words and the radical "woman". As Xiao Shi said, we need to be more sensitive to words and language. If our team absorbs any popular terms without vigilance, it will inadvertently affect our thinking. Secondly, the women in the article all have their own independent thoughts. When Lin Lvyi was rumored, she did not explain it blindly. Instead, she worked hard to change from the competition class to the liberal arts class and told Ji Yu that we were the "number one" (I am particularly surprised and admired here), as well as Shi Hui, Li Hongshang, Ruan Zhiru, Tang Lingying, etc. Ji Yu, I like her very much. She comes from a privileged background, has good grades, is versatile, faces difficulties bravely, has her own independent thoughts, and is eager to enlighten and help her classmates. Finally, I think this is a group portrait that is close to life. This group of teenagers established a cat planet to protect kittens. They wrote articles to protect their partners and explained the reasons. They ate together, skipped school to relax after the exam, and watched the sunrise together. It was so beautiful!! Xiaoshi, see you in the next story~
Happy birthday, Xiao Meng! [Cat Claw]
DaDa is great, and the lottery is still being held now 💪💪 and the conditions are so relaxed 555, so that I, a person who has not won a few prizes, can also enjoy the benefits 🎆 Happy New Year's Day, Da Da! Happy New Year! [Purple Sugar]kswl
"I wish you all the moonlight to shine and become a summer breeze during your long voyage." [Blue Heart]
It's a very warm story 💪
Ji Yu and Meng Fangzhou, my dear friends, we have come to 2025 together. This must be a good year, right? Two children who successfully went to Taopu to study in college~ I hope you had a good time studying there in 1978 or 1989 (I will give you permission to get a postgraduate degree or something~) It will be an extremely good and precious 789 years in your life. In mid-April this year, choose a working day with nice weather and no classes to go to the National Botanical Garden together! There will be a super super super super large number of tulips in full bloom waiting for you, allowing you to truly understand what "flowers and brocades" and "colorful purples and reds" are... If you are lucky enough (you will definitely be), you will be rewarded with a gorgeous sunset on the West Suburban Line grandstand when you return in the evening. I wish you a blooming spring! One after another! I also want to spend my time studying my subjects at my place, and I will come back to see you often. Dear friends, I wish our lovely future is bright! [Rose][Blue Heart]
In fact, on New Year's Eve, I climbed up just to say Happy New Year, but I was caught off guard and got a "text finished"... As I said before, I have been away from high school for many years. It is true that when I was an undergraduate, I would still think about the people and things in high school from time to time. But after a long series of long and grueling exams, and all kinds of troublesome things after graduate school, I really rarely think about high school, as if it was a long time ago. I'm 80 years old hhh) When I was in high school, I was cheerful, enthusiastic, and enthusiastic. On the other hand, I was naive, immature, too straightforward, impulsive, and easy to take risks. After I entered college, due to the major I studied and my own review and growth of myself, I consciously corrected my words and deeds to control my emotions, and worked hard to be calm, objective, rational, etc. I haven't changed my true self, but I've definitely moved inward a lot, becoming the person I like now. There's nothing wrong with that, because it's part of growing up. I have corrected myself until now. After 24 years of long experience of "climbing this mountain with my head down, there are countless mountains waiting to be climbed" and putting in 99.99% Of my efforts to reach the "imagined other shore", but God has dismissed me as 0. After using 01% of my strength to unexpectedly knock me down on the beach, I lay motionless on the beach. Even though I knew that the tide was about to rise and the water would rush up little by little, I still didn't want to move. I had no strength, and it was like a living person in a slightly dead state. I came across this book at this time, and it was very magical. Maybe it was like lying on the beach and I glanced at the bright moon on the sea. In fact, nothing happened, nothing was different, but I felt an inexplicable power. Just like I haven't started reading the article, just the name and copy of "First Quarter Moon and Summer Wind" already made me feel like smelling the fresh air. This may be the sixth sense of liberal arts students. So I clicked in and met all the teenagers. It was so magical, so magical. They really reminded me of the long-lost high school. Obviously, I am a liberal arts student, but my grades are not that good, and I have not studied hard since I was a freshman in high school. But maybe the emotions are common, that is A very simple plot or a very simple dialogue made me feel like I had taken a big breath of fresh air. "Become a summer breeze" and "Just think of him as willful, and he will calmly pay for his willfulness."... These purely flamboyant words, and these magnanimous young people. , Eh, I was moved, as if Chen Zhong, who had been silent for many years, was suddenly hit by the two teenagers, Ji Yu, Meng Fangzhou, and again and again, the sound of "dang" echoed over and over again, as if looking in the mirror, I remembered, "Hey, I seem to be like this before?" "Wow, although I haven't experienced it. But I understand!" "Long time no see, classmates!" There were many exclamation marks in my heart, and I told myself, "Young people are open-minded and never look forward or backward. Young people always do things as they please, and they will never be knocked down. You were like this before. Don't think too much about it now. Just do it."
As soon as I turned a page, I was suddenly in my senior year of high school. Yubao rushes to the duck! Guarantee 720 and rush to 750 (anyway, you can get as many points as the top scorer in science! Wuhu~) 💪
Xiaoyu Xiaozhou, please be happy forever! Finish scattering flowers [Good Luck Lotus][Good Luck Lotus][Good Luck Lotus]
Happy New Year!!! Dear Yu Bao, Xiao Meng, other Xiao Bao, and Ye Ye who created this utopia, everyone must be happy in the new year!! Let's walk~🥰