Sweet Words from a Childhood Friend

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This story will be completed and go VIP on the 19th. Starting from chapter 18, please don't buy it again if you've already read it!

School life, childhood friends, secret crush, sweet romance, one-on-one, happy ending

Cheerful, affectionate childhood sweetheart x steady, doting childhood sweetheart

Xi Xiaohe and Zhou Xiaobai have grown up together. To Xi Xiaohe, her neighbor Zhou Xiaobai is closer than her own brother.

In her first year of high school, Xi Xiaohe suddenly realizes that she likes Zhou Xiaobai, romantically.

She thought she would hide these feelings forever beneath their familiar relationship as neighborly siblings, until after high school graduation, when she finds five love letters in Zhou Xiaobai's bedroom.

They span from middle school to high school, and all five are addressed to her.

Xi Xiaohe finds Zhou Xiaobai and says, "I found your five love letters."

Zhou Xiaobai is briefly taken aback, then hooks a finger around hers. "Then can I pursue you?"

Before they come clean, Zhou Xiaobai is so cool and aloof he seems ready to renounce the world and become a monk at any moment.

Afterward, he'll guide Xi Xiaohe's fingertips over his Adam's apple and ask, "Do you want me, Xi Xiaohe?"

Updates every night at nine, daily until completion.

Synopsis for Fish in the Palm:

Cen Yi thinks love is nothing special. She's had her fill after all these years, and the person her family has arranged for her to marry seems decent enough. Returning to a stable life would be fine.

The day she makes her decision, she meets someone named Lin Jie.

She realizes it's not that she's had her fill of men. She just hasn't met anyone who interests her yet.

The first time Lin Jie sees Cen Yi, she's on the cover of a famous fashion magazine.

She's wearing a qipao, her eyes seductive, one high heel resting in a male model's palm. A haze obscures her long legs, but the glimpse is enough to captivate.

The dark lace gloves stand out against her pale arms, creating a striking contrast. Even the cigarette holder resting casually in her palm looks sexy.

Even knowing she has a fiance, Lin Jie approaches Cen Yi after returning to China, hands her his photographer's business card, and waits for a proper chance to meet her.

A full two months pass before he gets a message from Cen Yi asking him to take some photos.

He thinks he'll be photographing Cen Yi, but it turns out to be a model from her company.

Inside the studio, every time Lin Jie looks up, he meets Cen Yi's gaze. It's hard to say which of them is watching the other.

After the shoot, Cen Yi lifts a strapless evening dress and asks him, "Want to work overtime?"

Lin Jie keeps a straight face. "No problem."

Halfway through the shoot, Cen Yi lowers her long legs from the hammock. Her gaze sweeps over Lin Jie's bobbing Adam's apple and flushed ears as she asks, "Didn't you say there was no problem? You don't seem quite yourself."

"I'm exactly as I should be." Lin Jie walks over to the hammock, his warm palm encircling her ankle as he adjusts her pose. His dark eyes stay fixed on her. "I'm deliberately trying to get your attention."

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Fei Yuanqing realizes that his fiancee Cen Yi, who has always kept a polite distance from him, seems to have started dating someone recently.

It's the second son of the Lin family. He's heard a little about him, but not much.

He thought the kid was just a diversion from Cen Yi's work, but in only two short months, he has started to feel that his fiancee is slipping out of his control.

It seems that simply treating her with courtesy and respect isn't enough to win her heart. He'll have to do something else.

The marriage alliance between Cen Yi and Fei Yuanqing was settled long ago. Neither objected. Cen Yi treats Fei Yuanqing as she would a mirror: he respects her, and she returns the same respect.

Since meeting Lin Jie, Fei Yuanqing has gone from testing the waters to openly interfering in her life.

At first, Cen Yi pays no attention, thinking it's just a brief bout of male possessiveness. Later, she gets annoyed and gives him a taste of his own medicine.

In the end, even Fei Yuanqing can't say whether everything he did afterward was because he truly fell in love with Cen Yi, or because Cen Yi wanted him to fall in love with her.

Theme: Grow through experience and become a better person