If You Just Happen to Like Me Too

Zhang Yumu has mild social anxiety. She has never had a male friend, and she's always been too shy to say more than a few words to boys.

Then, after starting her first year of high school, she ran into a huge problem.

Because her name is gender-neutral, she was assigned a boy as her deskmate. And, to make matters worse, she fell for him at first sight.

He was cool and composed, with a pristine air about him, seemingly beyond anyone's reach.

She liked people like him: strong, rational, calm, disciplined, and emotionally steady.

But she was timid and avoidant. Around him, her body was tense every day, and she hardly dared to breathe.

Every day, she did everything she could to arrive before him and leave after him. She filled her water bottle ahead of time, stayed in her seat during breaks, and held it in rather than go to the bathroom, all to avoid talking to him.

But Zhang Yumu wasn't "normal." He was.

At their teacher's request, he had to help her with her homework and spend time with her. As they gradually became familiar, they even became friends naturally.

She found it incredibly troubling.

She didn't want to get involved with him. She didn't want him crossing her boundaries or entering her world.

She chalked up her feelings for him to adolescent hormones, telling herself she'd feel the same way about anyone else.

So she just wanted to retreat into her psychological comfort zone and wait for the turbulent tide in her heart to subside.

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Later, Gu Wang sat beneath a banyan tree, waiting outside the school gate all night, and sighed quietly.

Born into a wealthy family, handsome, and at the top of his class, he was always surrounded by admiration. He had never felt so defeated.

She seemed to hate him.

Even though they had known each other for a long time, she was still as cool and distant as she had been when they first met.

If she acted that way toward everyone, he could at least console himself that it was simply because she was quiet by nature.

But after they were assigned to different classes, he realized she didn't have anything like "social anxiety" around other boys.

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Premise: Those who never forget will eventually be answered