My Secret Crush Stole My Reaction Images

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○ Soul connection / White Moonlight / Secret relationship / Romantic tension / Cool and reserved, secretly passionate x gentle and clear-eyed

Recently, Su Su has noticed something strange.

Her crush, Chi Yuchuan, uses almost exactly the same reaction images as she does.

In the large group chat for a general education class, the teacher tags everyone: "The group PPT must be submitted before the next class. It will count toward your final grade."

She sends a reaction image: [A little figure bowing and saying, "Got it."]

Chi Yuchuan immediately sends the same one.

At first, she thinks it's just a coincidence. Then one day she sees a screenshot of someone else's chat with Chi Yuchuan on their social feed, and he uses the exact same reaction images as she does!

At their dorm's late-night chat, Su Su announces solemnly, "I think Chi Yuchuan likes me."

Everyone lies down. "Go to sleep. We have an 8 a.m. class tomorrow."

Before long, someone else notices the pattern and starts a rumor around campus: Chi Yuchuan likes Su Su, and the two of them are dating in secret.

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Once again, during a general education class, Su Su is reading jokes and shaking with laughter. She casually shares one in the dorm group chat.

The teacher at the front of the room says, "I've shared the materials in the group chat. Everyone can..."

Su Su realizes she's sent the joke to the class group. More than two minutes have passed, so she can't retract it.

While she's cringing with embarrassment, Chi Yuchuan sends a reaction image below: [I'm dying of laughter]

Then both of them get kept behind for a lecture.

Under a dusk sky with just one strip of sunset left on the horizon, the two of them leave the classroom building.

Chi Yuchuan: I heard I like you?

Su Su's heart skips a beat. "Who said that? It's slander! Whoever said it will be single forever."

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At a class reunion five years after graduation, someone brings up the campus heartthrob Chi Yuchuan.

"I hear he's really successful now. Which company is he CEO of?"

Su Su lowers her head and keeps eating. "Ruike."

"Oh, right, right... I heard he's married, too. I wonder which beauty he married."

Su Su points to herself. "Me."

Everyone looks up at the sky and falls silent.

After the reunion, a torrential downpour is falling outside. Chi Yuchuan emerges from the rain, takes Su Su by the hand, and leads her away.

The others are left gaping in shock.

Su Su: Don't we have an underground parking garage? Why did you park outside?

Chi Yuchuan: I finally get to make our relationship public. I wanted them to see.

Later, one of Chi Yuchuan's good friends comes over. He's had too much to drink, and slurs, "Damn it, you made me spread that rumor about you two secretly dating back then."

So much for the cool campus heartthrob?

Su, the girl who got sold and helped count the money

Chi, the sanctimonious, secretly passionate Yuchuan

[Reading Guide]

*All cities in the story are fictional / 70% anti-piracy measures, 72-hour lock

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Cheng Jingzhi finally sees her poor boyfriend Chu Yi again after he's been gone for four years.

Now he's the lofty head of the Chu Group, and at a banquet, he pretends not to know her.

She already has a fiance, too, and plays along as if they're meeting for the first time.

As her fiance tells her about President Chu's prominent family and impressive abilities, Cheng Jingzhi silently turns her earring and thinks she's beyond help.

Later, her fiance invites President Chu to dinner with her. After the meal, her fiance searches anxiously for her outside the wall.

Inside, the utterly cold President Chu asks in an ingratiating voice, "When are you calling off the engagement?"

She smiles brightly. "Just be patient a little longer."

/

At the racetrack, he ostentatiously holds her close in the VIP room, where everything is visible through the transparent glass windows.

Furious, she scrapes a mark into his neck with her long fingernail.

He doesn't dodge, but crooks his lips and soothes her. "They can't see us from outside."

But just as a server pushes the door open, someone passing by spots a familiar head of dark hair.

The person turns and sends Qiao Yanjin a message: [Bro, I think I just saw your fiancee.]

Qiao Yanjin goes to confront Chu Yi, but his punch misses.

Chu Yi's expression doesn't change as he says coolly, "How can a loser show his face and make a fool of himself?"

/

The Chu Group's CEO is known to outsiders as a ruthless and decisive man, with sharp features that conceal a deep cunning. He's a ruthless businessman who clawed his way to the top.

And yet, he invests in a small studio with little prospect of success.

Someone asks what business opportunity he's spotted this time. They see a photo of the small studio's founder lying quietly in his wallet.

His eyes grow dim, and he looks a little forlorn. "So I can be with her for a long, long time."

The studio flourishes. Once everything is stable, Cheng Jingzhi kicks Chu Yi to the curb.

Under the eaves in the middle of the night, Chu Yi leans against the door and catches the hem of Cheng Jingzhi's clothes. His eyes are as clear as they were back then. "Please don't leave me, okay?"

Cheng Jingzhi resolutely turns to leave. He gently takes her hand. "The scratches on my back haven't faded yet."

Cheng Jingzhi: And?

"They're a mark. Now that you've marked me, I can only be yours."

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