A Sunny Day in Some Month of Some Year

Reunited after a breakup | Mutual healing | Adversaries who love and hate each other Cool guy x prickly guy Xing Yu was the "other people's kid" Chu Beiling could never escape. From childhood onward, whenever Xing Yu was around, Chu Beiling was always in second place, crushed beneath him. Xing Yu was Chu Beiling's dark cloud, his personal hell. The more he tried to escape their ill-fated connection, the deeper he got tangled in it. Not only did they become classmates, but they also became deskmates. To make matters worse, they were roommates too, and Xing Yu's shadow was everywhere in Chu Beiling's life. And that wasn't all: This dark cloud, this hell, was always going against him. He tore up one of Chu Beiling's drawings, then mocked him. He tried every trick to stop him from going out with his friends. He was always making snide remarks about how Chu Beiling was inferior to him. Unable to stand Xing Yu, the thorn in his side and the bane of his existence, Chu Beiling made a wish: "May Xing Yu disappear on the spot." Later, just as he'd wished, Xing Yu vanished without a trace. They met again ten years later. Chu Beiling wished him a happy birthday, making up for the words he'd owed him ten years ago. Xing Yu turned and walked away without even looking at him. Unwilling to let him go, Chu Beiling stopped him and asked for the sketchbook Xing Yu had taken ten years earlier. "Xing Yu, when are you going to give my sketchbook back?" Xing Yu replied without expression, "More than half of the drawings in it are of me. It wouldn't be right to give it back to you." Year after year, morning and night, may your skies always be clear. Reading Guide: 1. The everyday-life parts have a slower pace. 2. A story about getting back together after a breakup, with parallel storylines in high school and adulthood. 3. Their personalities change slightly from their teenage years into adulthood as the story progresses, but their attitudes toward love haven't changed. They're still the same people they were ten years ago. 4. Some locations are based on real places, but the characters are not. Please don't connect them to real life. 5. If anything the seme or uke does bothers you, blame the author, not the characters. If you want to criticize the other characters, don't blame the author. -- Next story: After the Miaojiang Villain Plants a Love Gu Lin Rongshi, a demon king of an author who loves writing bad endings, transmigrates into his own novel as a cannon-fodder character who dies from the start. Armed with the complete plot and knowledge of everyone's fate, he changes the cannon fodder's destiny and sits back, waiting for the lunatic villain he created, the ultimate boss Chi Chen, to be cornered by Feng Ye, the protagonist who transmigrated into the book with a System, and meet a tragic end. Just as he's enjoying the show, Lin Rongshi finds himself cornered by the villain himself. As the grand priest of Miaojiang, Chi Chen is the undisputed king of this fantasy urban setting. He can sense the countless threads of intertwined fates, yet cannot see through this soul that appeared from nowhere, especially the way the other man looks at him: coldly, but as if he were a possession. Chi Chen's icy fingertips brushed the side of Lin Rongshi's neck. His voice was low and dangerous. "A soul that shouldn't exist." As soon as he finished speaking, a kiss carrying the scent of ylang-ylang fell upon Lin Rongshi. A love gu symbolizing a deep bond, one that would make them live and die together, was planted inside Lin Rongshi amid excruciating pain. After being infected by the love gu, Lin Rongshi was forced to see Chi Chen beyond the script. He repaired the eaves of a homeless child's house and curled up alone on the night of the full moon, enduring the agony of countless venomous insects burning at his heart. The cool composure of an observer began to crumble, piece by piece. When the love gu flared, Chi Chen held him captive in his arms, his burning breath branding the space beside Lin Rongshi's ear. Chi Chen sounded as if he were questioning him, yet also seeking an answer. "If it weren't for the love gu, would you be like everyone else, waiting for me to meet a miserable end?" Lin Rongshi looked up to meet his unfathomable gaze, ran a fingertip over the crimson gu mark between his brows, and smiled. "You tell me." Bound by the shackles of the gu, Chi Chen couldn't break free. He knew Lin Rongshi was up to no good and full of schemes, yet he still fell for him beyond saving, unable to pull himself out. Lin Rongshi, meanwhile, watched from the sidelines, always knowing when to advance and when to retreat. He seemed so calm, so self-possessed and in control, as if nothing in the world could touch his heart. Later, when Chi Chen was gravely wounded and near death, Lin Rongshi, who had always been calm and composed, went mad. Since he'd already entered the game, what did he care about coldly standing by? What did he care about a predetermined ending? The author, with the script in hand, decided to step into the story himself. He would hunt down the chosen one and protect his villain. He would create this world, and he would rewrite it. Theme: Love is a flower of hope blooming in the face of despair.