Someone Has Already Claimed This Beauty

Lin Zhiyu was stunningly beautiful, with more admirers than fish crossing a river. Their constant attention drove her up the wall, so she made up an imaginary boyfriend.

She slipped on a ring she had bought herself and told everyone it was a token of her boyfriend's love.

Worn on the middle finger of her right hand, it meant she was taken.

*

Chi Ji followed her to the same university.

On his first day there, he spotted her from afar, and saw the silver ring on her hand.

He heard that Lin Zhiyu and her boyfriend were deeply in love.

So many people regretted not being in the same year as Lin Zhiyu, arriving too late and having no choice but to accept that the gorgeous beauty was already taken.

Chi Ji thought her boyfriend wasn't good enough for her.

He hadn't arrived too late.

*

On a stormy day, Chi Ji arranged for them to share an umbrella.

Lin Zhiyu happened to learn that they were both born in Nancheng and chatted casually: "Maybe we've met before."

They had met before, but Lin Zhiyu had long since forgotten.

The rain made the silver ring shine even more conspicuously.

Chi Ji smiled as if nothing were the matter. "It's not too late to get to know you now, Senior."

Reading notes:

1. Single-couple, one-on-one romance.

2. The male lead is a year younger than the female lead and is scheming to take her boyfriend's place.

3. A campus romance, a bedtime story, around 30,000 words.

Theme: Be brave and pursue love