The Shackles of a Feast

A bubbly little jasmine x a two-faced young master

· School crush | Rekindled romance | Coming of age | Happy ending

Catkins rise on the wind, yet their fruit falls with the tide.

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Everyone at Fanhua High knew that the young master Yan, born high above the clouds, hated two things most:

First, he didn't like his own gentle, modest persona. Second, he couldn't stand Sheng Xu, the new girl who always outshone him.

The back-alley fried skewer stall was hazy with smoke and the warmth of a busy kitchen. Wrapped in her school uniform, Sheng Xu memorized vocabulary beside the fryer.

“Top of the grade, frying stinky tofu?” Yan Chuchao prodded her vocabulary book with his fountain pen.

“Yan.” Sheng Xu gripped her uniform, soaked through with the smell of oil. “You're standing on my family's price list.”

No one knew how Sheng Xu's crush had grown wild.

It was when he complained that iced Americanos were too bitter, and she secretly left homemade locust-blossom honey in his desk;

It was when he got hurt and she secretly slipped Yunnan Baiyao into his desk;

It was when she deliberately copied the draft three times just to spend a little longer with him;

It was the bandages she kept ready under her uniform for two and a half years.

Until she heard him laugh carelessly: “Even a top student dreams of turning from a sparrow into a phoenix?”

★ The Fanhua High six-person dorm series: the heroines of Looking Up at Spring, The Feast's Shackles, Daylight Starlight, Love Crowns Her, The Wild Crossing, and Tea in Qili live in the same dorm.

Next up: Looking Up at Spring, Lin Zhao x Jiang Zhiqian. Please add it to your favorites~

Brilliant dancer x sharp-tongued top-tier star

· From school to the entertainment industry | Marriage first, love later | A mutual crush comes true

The boy she'd loved for twelve years became the one beside her in bed.

Lin Zhao remembered that one afternoon in high school, Jiang Zhiqian asked her what kind of birthday present girls liked.

She had also heard that Jiang Zhiqian planned to pursue their class monitor.

From then on, Lin Zhao hid the first flutterings of her heart.

The year they graduated from university, Jiang Zhiqian became famous.

But because their families were close, they both bought homes in City A, right across from each other.

During a casual conversation, their elders brought up the marriage between Lin Zhao and Jiang Zhiqian. Neither of them knew what was going on, but neither refused.

But Lin Zhao knew in her heart that her marriage to Jiang Zhiqian was only an arrangement made by their parents and matchmakers. There was no real love between them.

As a newly rising top-tier star in the entertainment industry, Jiang Zhiqian stood out with his “high intelligence,” “high quality,” and “excellent upbringing,” becoming the ideal man in the hearts of countless fans.

Just as his career was reaching its peak, he resolutely announced that he was married.

Jiang Zhiqian V: The elders all like her.

It instantly set off a massive storm of public opinion.

Fans and passersby alike sighed with regret, unable to understand why such a talented, brilliant young idol would bind himself to marriage out of filial piety, spending the rest of his life with a partner he didn't deeply love.

Until the two appeared on the observational variety show My Little Couple

On camera, Jiang Zhiqian's gaze was as gentle as water, and every small gesture revealed how much he doted on Lin Zhao.

“Lin Zhao, I'll cook.”

“Lin Zhao, I'll do the dishes.”

“Lin Zhao, I'll...”

Viewers: The elders all like her? You like her a lot too, don't you!

After digging through old footage.

Viewers: What is this? Childhood sweethearts going from school to the wedding aisle, come to life!

Theme: The person you love should be part of your future.