Peace Comes with Thoughts of You

Childhood friends living together in the everyday-life story "Singing Together at Summer's End." The blurb is below.

[Beautiful and talented female director × devoted, clingy male investor]

In their second year of high school, everyone was dazzled by the transfer student Lin Yi'an. Only his deskmate, Su Niansu, saw the gloom in his heart. Optimistic as a little sun, she could always brighten the dark corners of the boy's heart.

Longing for warmth is human nature, and Lin Yi'an was no exception. He always wanted to get a little closer, then closer still, hoping that warmth would never disappear. But in the end, he was the one who disappeared. The confession he missed and the promise he broke became regrets he could never undo.

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Years later, they meet again. Lin Yi'an is a rising star in investment banking, while Su Niansu is someone in need of investment. More precisely, her work urgently needs an investor.

Before the meeting, Su Niansu had no idea that the person who had come knocking was Lin Yi'an. She also didn't know whether he'd deliberately sought her out or chosen her work from among thousands of others. The distance time had put between them made her too embarrassed to ask. Throughout the meal, with nowhere else to turn, all she could think about was reaching an agreement. She never noticed the restrained, unmistakably intimate look in her former deskmate's eyes.

From his youth to adulthood, it took Lin Yi'an a long, unrequited love to understand what it meant for something to take root deep in your heart. During the years when he couldn't return to the country, he'd imagined countless possible futures and even tried to let go and wish her well. But how could he give up without ever trying? So he arranged a reunion after many years, with every intention behind it, and brought himself before the person he had thought about day and night, just for a chance.

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Because they saw each other so often during their collaboration, rumors began to spread that Su Niansu was throwing herself at the cold, heartless Lin Yi'an for the sake of art, only to be rejected. To stop the rumors from spreading further, she had no choice but to keep her distance.

Faced with her coldness, Lin Yi'an, the one who really was throwing himself at her, felt deeply wronged. After the rumors started, his path to winning her back seemed to grow even longer.

Fortunately, the film would take only a year to make.

The film premiered and became a box-office smash. Su Niansu had fulfilled the promise she made at the beginning.

Lin Yi'an made a fortune, but he wasn't happy. All he'd ever wanted was to rekindle their old love.

Seeing how dejected he looked, Su Niansu went up on tiptoe and kissed the corner of his lips. "Lin Yi'an, I accept the confession you made back then."

At last, the unrequited love that had come to nothing in their youth was fulfilled. Lin Yi'an instinctively kissed her back, unable to hold himself back any longer.

After they opened up to each other, Su Niansu discovered that the usually refined and aloof Lin Yi'an wasn't just a jealous man reincarnated, but also incredibly clingy. Whenever she could no longer fend him off, he would keep asking her to make him her husband. He even said with perfect seriousness, "You're not clingy enough, so I have to make up for it."

Su Niansu was speechless. Could someone tell her where the cold, taciturn Mr. Lin from before had gone?

What Su Niansu didn't know was that to Lin Yi'an, she was more than the person who had saved him in his youth. She was the only light in his life.

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One day after they were married, Su Niansu was tidying the study when she found a few seemingly insignificant old objects in the safe. Every one of them had something to do with her. Lin Yi'an had treasured them dearly.

So there had been signs all along.

In truth, there are no such things as countless coincidences and fated meetings in this world. It was all just one person's carefully arranged reunion after years apart.

[With you, Niansu, I find peace. You were the salvation of my youth, the wish in my heart, and the love I treasured and kept hidden there.]

Reader's note:

The heroine saves the hero, and his long-planned unrequited love finally comes true. They are each other's first love. The powerful male lead lowers his head for love. A sweet everyday story of him winning her back, with nothing but affection for the heroine. A fluffy reunion romance. No dating during their school years.

Please add "Singing Together at Summer's End" to your reading list. I'll be writing it soon.

If you asked Xia Weiwei who she feared most, the answer would naturally be Yu Chaoge.

Actually, Yu Chaoge wasn't fierce at all. He was the kind of child elders always pointed to as an example for other people's kids.

The reason Xia Weiwei was afraid of him was that she felt guilty. As a girl, she got a cavity, and her mother strictly forbade her from eating sweets. An older girl tempted her with chocolate and asked her to deliver a love letter to Yu Chaoge.

Yu Chaoge was the son of the family next door to Xia Weiwei's, commonly known as a childhood friend. Her childhood friend was three years older than she was. As they say, three years means a generation gap, and she'd always thought they lived in different worlds. Delivering the love letter was crossing a line, but the chocolate...

After agonizing over it for three minutes, Xia Weiwei agreed, only to be misunderstood.

Yu Chaoge furrowed his handsome brows, looking very serious. "Why learn to write love letters like other people, little girl?"

"It wasn't me..." Xia Weiwei burst into tears on the spot and blurted out the whole truth. Her mother happened to hear everything as she passed by.

In the end, her mother dragged her home and scolded her. She almost got a beating, too.

When they grew up, her parents often joked about the incident. Xia Weiwei considered it the most embarrassing thing that had ever happened to her.

But as it happened...

After graduating from university, she planned to rent a place of her own. The kindhearted Auntie Yu was a little too kindhearted, so both families' elders left her in Yu Chaoge's care.

Awkward things were bound to happen when they lived under the same roof.

On the third night of living together, Xia Weiwei passed Yu Chaoge's room and heard strange panting from behind the tightly shut door. Terrified, she turned and ran.

On the thirtieth night, Xia Weiwei came home late and climbed over the wall. A pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist from behind and lifted her down. She was so startled she forgot to breathe.

On the third month of living together, Xia Weiwei passed Yu Chaoge's room and heard a dramatic performance coming from inside. The words were from the novel she'd written!

She suspected Yu Chaoge had been sneaking a look at her novel, but she didn't dare confront him. There were extremely suggestive scenes in the story, and she didn't want to embarrass herself a second time.

Female author × male voice actor

Childhood friends, love growing over time, the hero falls first, each other's first love, three-year age gap, gentle older man, sweet cohabitation story.

Theme: Stay positive and work hard at life.