Original title: My Lady, You’re Missing Me in Your Destiny
A reader’s guide:
Tags
Mutual healing | Childhood friends | Unrequited love becomes mutual | Both pursue each other | Family trauma | Pure love | Post-90s and post-00s era | School life | Old-school
[Stubborn, independent childhood friend X scheming, patient, devoted childhood friend (a little gloomy)]
One-on-one, first-love couple, SJ. The heroine has a heart of steel and fears relationships with men. The hero has loved her in secret and watched over her for years. Happy ending.
Updates according to rankings.
If not ranked, two chapters a week.
Slow burn, slow burn, slow burn!
The plot is very cliched! Very cliched! Very cliched!
From primary school through high school and into the working world, people came and went from Su Yu’s life. But there was one person who never left.
That person was Xu Yingze.
Just like his name, he was always by her side, a constant presence who had become part of her daily life.
Going to and from school; getting rides to and from work; eating together; talking things out, and so on.
They were even closer than most couples.
Xu Yingze had always thought that the most special place by her side belonged to him, and that she would belong to him, too.
He liked her.
She liked him, too. There was no doubt about it.
Until high school, when the top student and campus heartthrob tried to compete with Xu Yingze for the title of top guy in their grade by pursuing Su Yu, hoping to make him jealous. On Confession Day, Su Yu threw up all over him in front of the whole school...
Only then did Xu Yingze realize that things might not be as he had imagined.
Su Yu had a hidden condition.
Whenever a man pursued her, she would feel sick all over and be unable to stop herself from retching.
This discovery silenced Xu Yingze just as he was about to confess out of anxiety.
And so he remained silent for years.
Whenever a rival appeared by her side, Xu Yingze would taunt him: “I can be close to her in all kinds of ways. I can hold her hand and put an arm around her shoulders. I’m the only one she won’t shy away from. But can you do that? What do you have to compete with me?”
One person just laughed and said, “So what? In her eyes, I’m still at least a man. But what about you?”
“You can get close to her and do all sorts of things with her, things that wouldn’t look out of place even between a couple. But in her eyes...”
“You don’t even qualify to sit at the table.”
Xu Yingze liked Su Yu.
It was something you knew, I knew, and he knew, but...
She didn’t know
and she never could.
Thanks to Feng Wan for the cover background.
Content warnings:
1. To fully develop the characters, there will be a lot of chapters from the hero’s point of view, as well as plenty of childhood scenes early on. Please avoid this story if that bothers you.
2. The heroine doesn’t come from a good family, and she isn’t a pampered princess, but she is self-reliant and determined. Please avoid this story if you’re sensitive to family background issues.
Looking for a fresh narrative angle in a fairly old-fashioned plot.
A writing and character-interaction exercise. Free until completion.
[Coming Soon]
[Laid-back childhood friend who lies flat X scheming childhood friend who returns after starting a business]
Tags: Reunion after years apart | Childhood friends | Bickering couple | Childhood friend returns | MMORPG
An extra story for My Lady, You’re Missing Me in Your Destiny, featuring Tang Xiaoxi and Zhou Chen.
Blurb:
Throughout Tang Xiaoxi’s youth, there was always one person who wouldn’t leave her alone
her childhood friend, Zhou Chen.
They’d known each other since before they were born, yet every time they met, they argued...
She just wanted to lie flat and be an ordinary, easygoing slacker.
But he wasn’t content to stay in one place. He was determined to venture out and make his way in the world.
Their ambitions could hardly have been more different.
After graduating from college, he settled in a big city and landed a high-paying job. After years of hard work, he quit to start his own business and made a great success of it.
She, meanwhile, stayed in her hometown, took a secure government job, and went from one matchmaking date arranged by her elders to another, without finding a suitable man.
Just when she thought their lives would remain parallel lines that would never meet, he came back from the big city?! And he planned to put down roots and build a life in their hometown?!
“Don’t make things complicated. We know each other inside and out, and we come from similar backgrounds...”
“How about...”
“We give it a try?”
A reader’s guide:
1. No cheating on either side.
2. A story about childhood friends who couldn’t stand each other growing up, then suddenly fell for each other. He falls first.
3. Recommended for players of games like Steam, Where Winds Meet, Justice, and Jian Wang 3.
4. Recommended for fans of childhood-friends romances.
Theme: Everyone has someone who can keep them in check. Love means protecting the one you love.
