Name: So It Was You
Author: Liu Jiang

Synopsis

The new novel, "Giving Way", is now open for reservations. The blurb is below. My lovely readers, please add it to your collections~

What should you do when your confession is rejected?

Wen Xi: Keep pursuing him, then kiss him until he cries T_T.

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At the welcome party, Wen Xi took the stage and played a piano piece. Afterward, she received one love letter after another, and boys were always hanging around outside her classroom to catch a glimpse of her.

But no one knew that she, too, had a love letter hidden in her heart, one she didn't dare write.

She had even pretended to pass by his classroom, stealing a look at him ten thousand times.

When she learned he'd suffered an unexpected misfortune overseas, Wen Xi kept it from everyone and booked a flight to his country during the summer after the college entrance exams. She landed in his city that very night.

She'd thought this moth-to-a-flame pursuit would come to nothing.

The odds of even seeing him once were one in ten thousand.

But as she wrote his name in the airport cafe, a man in a suit suddenly appeared behind her. He glanced at the fogged-up screen of her phone and called her name. "Wen Xi?"

Wen Xi had always thought he truly hadn't seen that, on the fogged-up screen, she'd written out the name "Cheng Chi" stroke by stroke.

A rainy night overseas.

She confessed while drunk, but he turned her down gently.

From then on, Wen Xi hid her hopeless, secret crush deep inside.

Until one day, the man, now a promising young talent, suddenly showed up at a get-together with friends.

In a dim, chaotic bar, the refined man lounged on the sofa, elegant and composed like a flower atop a high peak. His friends teased him. "We hear you're pursuing a girl lately. Have you won her over?"

The man gave a quiet, inscrutable click of his tongue, a flash of regret crossing his brow. "That young lady is really hard to win over."

Everyone laughed and told him to give up. With his looks and background, he could have anyone he wanted.

The next day, a snowstorm was on its way.

Wen Xi was at home studying for a certification when her neighbor came over to borrow some cooking wine. Somehow, as he borrowed it, he pushed her against the wall. His tall figure looked strangely forlorn. "I deserve this, but can't you look at me just once?"

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Blurb written on October 27, 2023.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

2. A secret crush comes true | Mutual pursuit | Reunion after a long separation | Age gap

3. One-sided crush at first, gradually shifting toward mutual pining.

4. Has a bit of a healing-and-redemption feel.

5. Updates daily from here on.

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Coming soon: "Giving Way".

1.

At Shenda No. 1 High School, there was a widely adored golden boy: gentle and polite, always following the rules, his white shirt and jacket neat and spotless, as refreshing as a breeze.

In the eyes of every girl at school, he was the "nation's first love."

Jiang Cha heard this and turned around to slip into his arms.

"Now that we've graduated, what do you think when you hear that?"

The private room at the gathering was noisy with chatter. The cool, quiet boy lounged back in his seat, his face expressionless, nothing like the "gentle" image people described.

His fingers were long and slender, a plain ring circling his middle finger.

At her words, he lifted his eyes to her and suddenly smiled.

"Then am I not your first love?"

He was her first love.

Jiang Cha blushed as she told him so.

But she still didn't quite agree.

Gentle and polite?

When someone blocked her after school, he went straight for a vicious punch without bothering to ask what had happened.

Always following the rules?

After graduation, if she let him, he would treat her tenderly, anywhere and anytime, whether with his lips or something else.

Even if they were in different cities, he could rush over through the rain and wind just for a kiss.

Only his face never grew tiresome to Jiang Cha. In that respect, the rumors were true.