The Rose Principle

High School Blurb:

1.

Everyone at the affiliated high school knew Xie Shuyan was the star of the competition class. But he was always walking around with a pretty top student, putting off many of his admirers.

Xie Shuyan never responded to the rumors, while people around Song Tang would only say, "They've been friends since they were little."

2.

After Xie Shuyan returned from training camp, the teacher arranged for Song Tang to tutor him over the break. A classmate spotted them at the library and came back to post on the school forum: [They were right in front of me, I swear!]

[I've never seen Yan take the initiative like this. He asked me to explain a ridiculously easy problem yesterday, and now he's pestering top student Song to go through it step by step. He hasn't looked away from her once. They almost kissed!!!]

Everyone chorused, "So much for them not being close!"

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University Blurb:

1.

Song Tang and Xie Shuyan had once shared the most intimate relationship. To their friends, they were childhood sweethearts who had known each other for over a decade, and a pair of top students in love. Anyone else might break up, but those two never would.

But before they had even graduated from university, everyone learned that the two had broken up for good.

They met again six years later. By then, Song Tang had become a somewhat well-known businesswoman.

They moved in the same circles, so they often ended up at the same gatherings after the breakup. Xie Shuyan was casual and unruffled, even telling people outright when asked about their past, "My ex is over there. If you have questions, just ask her."

His cold indifference left Song Tang with nothing to say. She accepted it all, after all, she had been the one who wronged him.

"You thought of everyone, but you were the one who gave up on me."

Clear-headed heroine x star of the school

Childhood friends / rekindled love / happy ending / both leads' first love

Main story: school days + city life

Theme: Outgrow the ties that bind us.