In Springtime

"Some are sly and deceitful, while others are honest and simple.

Some are gloomy and sensitive, while others are warmhearted and kind.

Some people are spring itself, just by standing there!"

When Shu Hua was young, she had two nightmares.

One was her first-grade math teacher, who wouldn't let her go home for dinner because she couldn't recite the multiplication tables.

The other was Xie Sili, the boy next door, who always came first in every exam and became the gold standard her mother used to lecture her.

Fortunately, after sixth grade, she moved to the city with her business-owning parents and went to school there, escaping those two nightmares.

She never expected that, twelve years later, she would return to Chunshui Village.

And the nightmare that had haunted her throughout her childhood came back, too.

"The only way to beat magic is with magic.

The only way to defeat your nemesis is to completely crush him. 0v0"

[Carefree, shameless underachiever girl + smart, arrogant top student boy]

The title comes from Wang Feng's song "In Spring."

Other completed works: My Teacher Song, The Block Game, and After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Became a Salty Fish. Visit my author page to read them. Mua~

My modern urban romance, Summer Dragonflies, is now underway. You're welcome to read it~

A month after Ye Yang was dumped by her fiance, a twist of fate led to one wild night with a man.

She later learned that he was Jiang Qingchuan, her friend's husband's childhood friend, the older brother of her new young tenant, and the new boss of her scummy ex-boyfriend while he was pursuing his doctorate.

Her friend kept telling her that the best way to get over one relationship was to start another.

Ye Yang thought Jiang Qingchuan seemed like a pretty good choice.

At the end of autumn, at the start of winter, when the trees had shed their leaves and they covered the roads, big and small, Ye Yang, her scummy ex-boyfriend, and Jiang Qingchuan finally crossed paths.

Her scummy ex-boyfriend demanded to know whether she had gotten together with Jiang Qingchuan to get back at him.

Ye Yang nervously looked at the man beside her.

His expression was calm, utterly unruffled. Without a word, he took her hand.

"Didn't you want freshly roasted chestnuts? If we don't go now, the shop will close."

Beneath the dim streetlights, Ye Yang stood on the street, looking up at the man in the cold wind as he carefully peeled a chestnut.

"Don't you want to ask whether I got together with you to get revenge?"

"Is that why you did it?"

Jiang Qingchuan didn't even look up, but held out the peeled chestnut to Ye Yang.

"No," Ye Yang said, holding his arm and smiling up at him, her eyes full of stars. "I got together with you because you're handsome."

No one knew that on that summer night when the whole world had abandoned her, this man alone had given her, as she cried in secret, a warm embrace.

"You don't have to stand on tiptoe. The person who loves you will bend down for you." - Yang Jiang

Theme: Giving back to one's hometown, accompanying family in social development, and realizing one's personal value