Asking About Summer

Original title: Hidden Currents

My next novel will be Moonless Huai Season, a bittersweet second-chance romance. Please bookmark my upcoming road-trip novel, Traces!

Cheng Shu never imagined that she would one day fall in love with Chen Weishuo.

In the dim light, Chen Weishuo leaned against the wall, rubbing his thumb against the small of her back. His voice was casual and magnetic. "Want to be with me?"

The shifting light dazzled her. She softly replied, "Okay."

What Cheng Shu hadn't realized was that she was just one of many in Chen Weishuo's long history of love. And just like that, her three-year unrequited love came to an end.

Cheng Shu also knew that a man like Chen Weishuo would never learn to be faithful.

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When they met again, Chen Weishuo was still the darling of the heavens, admired by everyone.

And Cheng Shu was still submissive and unchanged.

Everyone around them thought the two would never get back together. After all, the man in question was Chen Weishuo.

Then one day,

in the drizzling rain, Chen Weishuo stood with an umbrella, a cigarette loosely between his lips. Smoke curled around him, obscuring his features and his gaze.

Cheng Shu didn't dare look for long, and didn't expect anything from him. Perhaps she knew they would never cross paths again, and that a man like him would never change for anyone.

Chen Weishuo held her against the wall, his voice hoarse as he repeated, "Shushu, let's start over."

Just like that night, the light around them was nearly identical.

Cheng Shu turned away and said calmly, "No."

There's no point going through something again when you already know how it will end.

Later, Cheng Shu never expected that the figure she kept glimpsing whenever she turned around was Chen Weishuo all along.

*Fake playboy x good girl

*1V1, SC, HE, from university to city life.

*Please see the author's note in Chapter 1 for content warnings.

*Weibo: @Su Wanw

------Coming soon------

Moonless Huai Season, a bittersweet second-chance romance. Please bookmark!

The day Song Yuxia was laid off, she wandered down the street, feeling lost and thinking that maybe this was all there was to life.

The rain was pouring that day. Soaked and miserable, she happened to run into her ex-boyfriend, Qin Chiyan, at a street corner.

They hadn't seen each other in years. He was now a well-known rising star in their industry, tall and elegant in a shirt and slacks, impossible to miss in the rain.

His distinguished air was as refined as ever, with a hint of maturity, but the woman under his umbrella was someone else.

Rain blurred her vision. The man in the distance seemed to notice, and his deep eyes suddenly turned toward her.

Just for a second. Then he looked away, lowering his gaze as he left with the beautiful woman beside him.

Song Yuxia gritted her teeth and messaged a friend to complain: [Getting laid off was bad enough, but running into Qin Chiyan in the rain is even more humiliating!]

Her friend: [Sparks flying again!? What are you waiting for? Go for it!]

Song Yuxia chickened out: [He'll kill me...]

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No one at Jing University had never heard of Qin Chiyan. He was handsome, taciturn, and an academic star who won a scholarship every year.

Song Yuxia was bright and beautiful, his complete opposite in every way, and the object of every boy's affection.

Everyone thought Song Yuxia loved Qin Chiyan more. Then, one day, Song Yuxia disappeared without a word, leaving only a letter behind as she went abroad.

In the crowd, Qin Chiyan opened the envelope, glanced at it, and tossed it into a trash can.

Years later, at a class reunion, everyone got drunk and reminisced about college.

Song Yuxia sat in a corner, trying to make herself less noticeable.

It didn't work. Someone still brought up the past: "Song Yuxia, you used to like Qin Chiyan so much. Do you really feel nothing for him now?"

At that, everyone turned to look at her, including Qin Chiyan in the shadows across the room.

Song Yuxia smiled with pursed lips. "It's been so long."

She didn't dare to feel anything either-

When the party ended that night, a drunken Qin Chiyan slumped in a corner and clung tightly to Song Yuxia's wrist.

Rain tapped against the window. He pressed close, his voice low and hoarse. "Xiaxia, don't leave me."

SC, 1V1, HE

Neither of them has been involved with anyone else since their breakup. The woman in the blurb has no relationship with the male lead.

Theme: Learn to be confident and to love yourself.