Mung Bean Ice

Bad-boy x stubborn girl / mutual pining / 1v1, each other's first love, both virgins

[1]

He Xiyin's bicycle brakes failed. Luckily, Zhou Tuo grabbed the handlebars in time, preventing her from getting hurt even worse.

A pink note slipped out from between the pages of her book.

He asked, "Who's it for?"

He Xiyin snatched it back. "An upperclassman."

[2]

The summer she was seventeen, He Xiyin became the school heartthrob's childhood-friend sidekick.

An accident: one broken leg, one broken arm.

Two patients with fractures folded paper cranes together in their hospital room, wishing to recover soon.

He Xiyin said, "Write your wish on a piece of paper, then fold it into a paper crane. It'll come true."

Every time, she turned her back to write her wish, then looked at him with a wounded expression.

Zhou Tuo took the half-folded crane and finished it for her.

"What did you write?" he asked.

She answered with a question. "Want me to sneak you out?"

He Xiyin pushed him out of the hospital, boldly ordered a whole tableful of food at a restaurant, then realized at checkout that she hadn't brought her wallet.

Zhou Tuo was held at the restaurant, but she didn't come back for ages.

Sitting in his wheelchair, he glumly stared at the alley entrance, when suddenly something cold touched his cheek.

"I'm here to bail you out!" He Xiyin appeared before him, holding two cups of mung bean ice.

"Zhou Tuo, I'm your hero, saving the day."

"Yeah. With my wallet."

"Hmph."

[3]

Later, the two of them went to the seaside they hadn't made it to that summer and opened the paper cranes. All those sheets of paper held only two sentences.

One said, "Zhou Tuo, you big dummy."

The other said, "He Xiyin, I like you."

"That summer when I was seventeen, I told the biggest lie of my life. Good thing he helped me make it come true."

Theme: The summer we were seventeen shone because of us