Kindling the Dampness of Spring

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Wan Li often boasts about her love with Luo Yingbai:

"When I was sixteen, I already knew my ideal type: a gentle, bookish boy with a clean white shirt, like a plant. So when I met Mr. Luo, I told him without holding anything back: You fit every image I have of a partner."

"So your romance is sweet?"

"Of course! He looks scholarly, but he's got a lean, muscular build. He does the laundry and cooks, earns money by painting, and even eats the bread crusts I hate most."

Everyone else thinks Wan Li is simply pleased that she got what she wanted.

After all, Luo Yingbai was incredibly hard to pursue.

He's a botany lecturer at a prestigious university, aloof and serene, perched high above everyone else. Back then, Wan Li got plenty of cold shoulders and rejections from him.

No one knows that, so many times at night, she gazed at Luo Yingbai and saw through him, remembering another face that looked eighty percent like his.

There was one thing that made it impossible for Wan Li to call that man what she wanted:

She had to call him "Older Brother."

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Luo Yingbai's rule for love had always been: Never fall in love too easily.

Later, he realized that rule only applied before he met Wan Li.

So even after learning that he was nothing more than a stand-in, once his anger and jealousy faded, he still remembered the day he met Wan Li:

Lush greenery, phytoncide particles drifting through the air.

The early summer wind was scorching away the dampness that had lingered low through the entire spring.

*Hot mulled wine x shaved ice, both leads are virgins

*Also known as Falling in Love with a Stand-In, Then Her Older Brother Came Back

Blurb written on 2023.3.5/2026.8.1

Theme: Love is patient and kind forever