Timely Rain

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[Secret Crush Comes True + Reunion After Years Apart]

Back in their youthful school days, the walls of the milk tea shop outside school were covered in student graffiti. All those unspoken, innocent feelings had turned it into a kind of confession wall.

The name Gong Tong saw most often was "Jiang Yibai."

He was the kind of person who could effortlessly set the whole school abuzz: handsome, sunny, carefree, and always at the top of his grade in science. She was lost and uncertain, neither excelling nor failing. They were worlds apart.

Gong Tong never imagined that one day she would leave the name "Jiang Yibai" on that wall, too.

Years later, Gong Tong returned to that milk tea shop.

The nostalgic owner had kept the graffiti wall. The densely packed, overlapping writing had long since yellowed and faded, just like their faded, youthful innocence.

It didn't take Gong Tong long to spot her own old handwriting.

Childish, stiff, carefully concealed: exactly like she had been at seventeen.

Then a clear male voice, full of astonishment, reached her ears. "That was written by you?"

Gong Tong looked up in alarm and met Jiang Yibai's bright amber eyes.

1. One couple, both each other's first and only

2. Starts in school, then moves to the city. The school portion makes up about a third.

3. The city and school are fictional, so please don't associate them with real places.

A similar secret-crush story seeking follows: "In the Moonlight"

During an interview, the host asked Zhu Hao to describe youth in one sentence.

After a moment's thought, she replied: Maybe it's how we stood together on the school rooftop and watched the moon so many times, but he never knew I wasn't looking at the moon even once.

No, I really was looking at the moon.

Zhu Hao had always known that Pei Xunche was a moon hanging high in the sky, never setting. Her brief connection with him in high school was already a blessing. He couldn't possibly shine on her alone.

What Zhu Hao never expected was that years after they parted, Pei Xunche would suddenly come running to ask her, urgently, "Who is that moon?"

"Is it him or me?"

Theme: Strive to become a better version of yourself.