Sour Oxygen

[Please check out my ongoing neighboring novel, Summer's Echo, No Waiting Past the Deadline]

[Unrequited love from him to her * rekindled love]

Years later, He Jiaojiao stood in the wedding home Cheng Wang had carefully prepared. Gazing at the enormous portrait treasured in the center of the living room,

she finally understood that neither back then nor now

had Cheng Wang's love for her ever stopped.

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He Jiaojiao had always known that Cheng Wang liked her. She knew from the time in their first year of high school when the top student Cheng Wang asked to sit beside her.

She knew Cheng Wang liked her.

Did she like him, you ask?

Perhaps. Sometimes, through the villa window, she'd secretly look toward him amid the lush green leaves outside.

She liked the boy who stayed up studying in his blue-and-white shirt.

But that alone wasn't nearly enough.

Cheng Wang's sudden disappearance was abrupt.

In the second semester of their first year of high school, a month before the final exams,

he vanished from her life completely.

She didn't go looking for him.

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But Cheng Wang had noticed He Jiaojiao much earlier than she imagined.

Princesses living in ivory towers rarely paid attention to the suffering below the clouds.

In elementary school, at Ivy International, 12-year-old Cheng Wang was surrounded and bullied in an alley. He Jiaojiao happened to pass by and reached out to help him.

The setting sun streamed down from high above through the gap in the alley. Along with the glittering silver badge on the girl's uniform, that moment and her name were engraved in his heart forever.

But when they met again, she'd already forgotten everything,

so he began to love her in secret.

The year he suddenly cut off contact in their first year of high school, he was only trying to protect her.

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Two years later, she moved to another city for work.

When the renovation workers across the hall from her apartment saw her, one of them went back and asked:

"Sir, it looks like your wife came back early. The house should be ready for inspection on schedule. Would you like us to prepare a surprise for her ahead of time?"

[Reader's Guide]

1. The ending isn't tragic, and the heroine is clearheaded.

2. A rekindled-love story.

3. This story is fictional.

Theme: Keep striving and study hard.