Little Green

Originally titled The Solo Act of First Love

Print edition now available

She split herself in two: one half stayed in the past, while the other was given to the present.

He split himself in two as well: one half was given to Ding Jenny, while the other was buried in yesterday.

Plot-focused blurb:

At thirty, during an interview, Jenny suddenly remembers something from long ago. With a smile, she tells a story, making fun of herself for once having a crush on a boy whose name she didn't know.

He loved wearing green hoodies. She secretly filled her diary with references to Little Green.

During the two most desperate years of her life in Nanling, Little Green was her only salvation.

But later, once she suddenly emerged from the fog, she finally remembered his name.

He was a dream she had convinced herself was real, a savior she had invented for herself.

The Little Green she had idealized was nothing more than an ordinary boy.

He wasn't a world-conquering hero, and he never helped her overcome every hardship.

He would marry and have children, live his own life, and eventually disappear into the crowd, as ordinary as anyone else.

She had deceived everyone, and they had deceived her in turn.

But in the end, she was the only one she hadn't fooled.

(Pseudo-literary blurb)

She sat close to the boy she liked.

He was tall, gentle, handsome, and good at school: the perfect first love of a young girl's dreams.

Like a lighthouse in the dark, a message of spring, like... a drifting, unreal dream.

More like a beautiful soap bubble.

Like a fleeting youth, like a route that could never be reached, like time slipping away,

with a little pop, it shattered completely.

The closest of places, the farthest of distances.

Embraces are heavy, comfort is silent, and longing is nothingness.

From beginning to end, her first love was always a solo act.

It took her many years to understand.

As it turned out,

the sound of something breaking isn't a little pop.

It's deafening.

Reading Guide

A story of a twist of fate. The male lead does not marry or have children [BE, BE, BE].

School days, first love, mutual pining, small town, salvation, slow burn (a truly slow burn).

Set roughly in the early 2000s, with details blurred; it's not a realistic portrayal.

[Next, I want to write a story where the gentle second male lead wins, Difficult Spring Flotsam. I'm working on the outline, ]

At eighteen, Chun Rao was a little rose just beginning to bloom,

immersed in fairy tales and living in a castle, stubbornly believing that love was a contest someone had to win.

It took her a long time to see that she had already lost the moment she fell in love first.

If love is a game of strategy, then Yang Wenliu had the whole board in hand from the start.

She had merely tried to act clever, changing from a unique rose into a little fox.

An incomplete love seemed to take her soul away,

yet when she was at the end of her road, it brought her a surprise.

Only after meeting Jiang Nanxu did Chun Rao realize

that an ideal relationship could take any form.

In his eyes, she could be entirely, unapologetically herself.

Little scene:

Years later, at a high school reunion, Jiang Nanxu arrived a little late.

As soon as he stepped inside, their former class monitor put a hand on Jiang Nanxu's shoulder, nodded toward Chun Rao, and grinned slyly. "I thought you weren't coming."

"After all, everyone knew you had a crush on Chun Rao back then. I just took a look, and she's wearing a ring. Your youth is well and truly over, man."

Jiang Nanxu gave a quiet laugh and opened his hand, but his eyes were fixed on Chun Rao, sitting in the corner.

"You mean this ring?"

His youth had never ended. His spring had simply arrived a little late.

But fortunately, it had arrived.

A sweet, sheltered girl who is lost in fairy tales VS a devoted, gentle man who creates them

A story where the second male lead, who has a secret crush, wins. No settling for leftovers, no making do; their feelings genuinely change.

Other BE stories are listed in my profile as upcoming works. I'm still learning and trying things out, but if you're interested, I'd love it if you checked them out~!!

Theme: Never give up