Ji Mian and Qiao Nanyu are neighbors.
The delicious aroma of the food next door made Ji Mian drool. She was practically ready to climb over the wall. One day, a handsome, shy young boy knocked on her door and brought her a bowl of glossy, red-braised pork.
Ji Mian's eyes lit up. I'm in!
From then on, a little glutton joined the Qiao family's meals next door.
Ji Mian was a late bloomer. She looked timid and easy to bully, and was constantly picked on by kids her age.
After Qiao Nanyu arrived, no more mean kids came around to bother Ji Mian. She freeloaded on meals at the Qiao house and got help with her homework, shamelessly monopolizing all of Qiao Nanyu's kindness. At the Qiao house, she was spoiled like a little tyrant.
In other words, she threw her weight around at home.
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After they started middle school.
Qiao Nanyu warned her coldly, "No dating."
Ji Mian had the face of someone's pure first love, yet she had never received a single love letter.
On the day she started school, Qiao Nanyu discovered Ji Mian watching "kissing tips" videos on her phone, completely engrossed.
As soon as she showed signs of getting into an early romance, someone hacked into the school network overnight and deleted every photo of her that anyone had secretly taken.
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Qiao Nanyu was a famously aloof top student, admired by many, though they only dared to admire him from afar. After they started high school, Qiao Nanyu became much more distant toward Ji Mian, too.
No one knew that in the young man's fanciful dreams, his childhood friend appeared more and more often.
Qiao Nanyu began avoiding Ji Mian, trying hard to maintain his image as a good big brother and neighbor.
Who knew that the person from his dreams would boldly take the initiative, corner him at the end of an alley in the dead of night, rise on tiptoe, and force a kiss on him?
Ji Mian (licking her lips): First kiss, get. √
Many years later.
Ji Mian: What happened to you being uninterested in women, chaste, and aloof?
As it turned out, all that refined and restrained behavior had been an act.
A spoiled, bossy-at-home childhood sweetheart vs. a cold, scheming childhood friend who is the opposite of what he seems
(Everyone could tell they were the best couple in the world and that nobody could come between them. They were the only two who didn't know it.)
Mutual teasing and doting, with both secretly in love.
Theme: Mutual teasing and doting, with both secretly in love.
