A Summer Tour Journal

[Bossy Cool Girl X Badass Younger Guy]

She had seen him far too many times.

On the way to the band's rehearsal room, a boy with a shaggy mullet walked past, bass slung over his back. Lai Xiyao was distracted for a moment, catching a faint scent of grapefruit.

Out for a walk after dinner, she happened to glance toward the track by the stadium. The mullet-haired boy was doing pull-ups for training. He looked like a student athlete at Qingshan University.

When Lai Xiyao needed to return a pair of drumsticks to the music shop, she called for a courier. The young man who arrived on a black motorcycle was the same mullet-haired boy.

At a gas station in the middle of the night, Lai Xiyao sat by the convenience store window waiting for someone, so sleepy that her head was starting to droop. Just as she was about to bump into the glass, a hand gently steadied her. Lai Xiyao slowly opened her eyes and recognized the mullet-haired boy in a gas station uniform standing before her.

It was him again.

She felt like he was showing up in every corner of her life.

At the gas station in the middle of the night, Tian Ye saw Lai Xiyao leave the convenience store and head to the roadside to hail a cab. He followed her and said,

"I'll take you."

Lai Xiyao asked, "You're off work already?"

Tian Ye answered without hesitation, "Yeah, I'm off."

He could ask someone to switch shifts right away and clock out immediately.

Anything to take her home. Anything to make sure she was safe.

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Reader's Guide:

1. Nuclear physics researcher X lean, muscular student athlete

2. The female lead plays drums in a band as a side gig, while the male lead plays bass in one.

3. Ensemble cast.

Theme: Be brave and passionate