Love Exposed [Secret Male Crush]

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I'm afraid you'll discover my secret feelings,

but I'm also afraid you never will.

[Male Unrequited Love / Boarding / Bittersweet Push and Pull / Brothers Fighting Over the Same Woman]

Lan Wuyin went abroad on an exchange program and boarded at her senior's house.

Everyone said Lian Xu was aloof and hard to approach, but to Lan Wuyin, he was kind and always ready to help her. His younger brother, Lian Yu, on the other hand, was unruly and rebellious, and openly hostile toward her. The first time they met, he made his attitude clear: "Move. Don't actually think this is your home."

Sensitive by nature, Lan Wuyin felt that she and Lian Yu were simply incompatible, so she started avoiding him at every turn. Who knew he would only get worse? He snapped at her, teased her, and more, countless times...

Until that rainy night, when she was on the phone with Lian Xu in her bedroom.

Lian Yu suddenly pushed open the door and locked it behind him.

Before Lan Wuyin could ask what he was doing, he lifted her onto a narrow side cabinet.

She had just showered and was wearing nothing but a robe. As she struggled, her slippers fell off and her belt came undone. Trapped in Lian Yu's arms, she couldn't move, her dangling toes unconsciously pointed straight.

"Hey, Wuyin, are you listening?" Her senior's gentle, urgent voice came from the phone.

But Lian Yu grabbed her shoulders, forcing her to meet his eyes.

In the dim room, their skin brushed together as the air grew warm.

The boy who was always cold and sharp-tongued with her gently covered her mouth. "Shh. Don't speak."

Lian Yu's lips were just inches away. Lan Wuyin's lashes fluttered like butterfly wings.

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When Lian Yu first met Lan Wuyin, a blue morpho butterfly landed on her fingertips. A strange feeling took root in his heart, and without thinking, he pressed the shutter.

But his mother told him that this girl, who would be boarding with their family for a year, was his brother's junior and the person his brother loved. To hide the feelings he shouldn't have, Lian Yu deliberately acted hostile toward her, teasing and ignoring her... Yet when she wasn't looking, he couldn't help caring for and protecting her...

Then one day, while lying in bed and looking through his photos, he realized that almost every picture on his camera was of Lan Wuyin. The feeling that came over him was just as irritating as when he heard her making an international call to his brother.

He went downstairs to get some water, and happened to find her on the phone again.

He knew it was wrong, but he still barged into her room and locked the door behind him.

#From now on, even if I have to betray my brother, defy my mother, and play the good boy or act pitiful, I'll do whatever it takes to keep you by my side.

Word spread that the campus heartthrob, who had sworn never to date while in school, was living with a girl. Everyone ran to ask Lan Wuyin, who was staying with his family.

Classmate A: "Wuyin, have you met Lian Yu's girlfriend?"

Lan Wuyin shook her head.

Classmate B: "Lian Yu usually keeps his distance from girls and only hangs out with Senior Zhu Nei. Could she be the one?"

Lan Wuyin softly replied, "I don't know."

The students came away with nothing, and though they were disappointed, they weren't surprised. After all, everyone at school knew that Lian Yu and this icy top student never got along. But no one knew that the two of them not only ate and lived together every day, but also embraced and kissed on the beach beneath dazzling fireworks.

#Both are virgins, a sweet and innocent first love

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