The Wind Blows Through Every Summer

[Jasmine-scented heartthrob x spicy algorithm genius]

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July 7, sunny. On a sweltering day filled with cicada cries, Lin Duoyan had just received an offer from a dream tech giant when her boyfriend broke up with her.

The good girl everyone knew

picked up a new boyfriend at a KTV on the very day she got dumped.

But it would be a long time before she knew who he really was. One wild, stormy night, she saw the half-length portrait on his wall of honors, one he'd treasured for years.

On the day she got dumped, she'd only touched him wherever she could reach.

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They first met in the rain that summer. She was like a pure white jasmine just beginning to bloom on a branch, so delicate, yet her fragrance irresistibly seeped into his body and memories.

From that day on, Li Qianzhou, the rich kid at Ancheng International School, famous for his rebellious, laid-back, roguish ways, actually started studying hard.

No one could have imagined that Li Qianzhou, who changed girlfriends three times in seven days, would ever have a secret crush.

He hid his feelings in a thick math-olympiad book on the shelf. On the back of the photo, in his rather clumsy handwriting, he wrote:

"The wind will eventually blow through every summer, so it's okay if I never meet you. We'll be together in the same summer breeze."

But that summer, when they met by chance, the wind swept past, scorching hot, and he had grown strong wings. "Lin Duoyan, nothing can stop me from getting close to you anymore."

[Bonus Scene One]

At the KTV, Lin Duoyan, fresh from being dumped, leaned against his shoulder, tears streaming down her face.

Lin Duoyan: "If you'd studied hard, you wouldn't have to do such an undignified job."

Li Qianzhou: "Did you find a job?"

Lin Duoyan: "Cosmos Tech! A big tech company. You've heard of it, right? Too bad you don't stand a chance."

Half a month later, the company's new algorithm prodigy looked so much like the man she'd touched at the KTV that day.

Li Qianzhou: "How's my progress after two days of studying? Your company doesn't seem that hard to get into."

[Bonus Scene Two]

At Tingyin Temple in Haicheng, where prayers for love were said to be answered most often.

Lin Duoyan knelt before the Buddha statue and prayed, "Buddha, please turn Li Qianzhou, that gay man, straight. I think I've fallen for him."

Standing behind her with one hand in his pocket, Li Qianzhou watched her devoutly kneeling figure, five lemons' worth of sourness rising in his throat all at once.

She probably still hasn't forgotten her ex, has she?

There's a secret he hasn't told her.

The letter her ex just sent, asking to get back together, is coincidentally hidden in his trouser pocket.

When it was his turn to pray, he silently wished: May the woman in front of me never get what she asked for.

Reader's guide:

1. The quote on the back of the photo comes from the internet. It inspired this story. Much respect to the author, whoever they may be.

2. There will be plenty of internet-industry jargon in the work-related scenes, such as "closed loop," "leverage," and "iteration." Explanations will be provided at the end of each chapter.

Coming soon: The Snowy Polar Night

[Witty jokester x Steady, wooden man]

[Reunion after years apart | Mutual secret crush | Sweet romance]

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Before going to Norway, He Minzhi had just ended a three-year relationship.

That evening, when she got home from work, she happened to find her boyfriend in bed with another woman.

She immediately broke up with him and kicked the cheating couple out of her apartment.

On a winter night when she was furious enough to burst, she impulsively bought a plane ticket to Norway. She'd heard the polar night was coming, and thought it suited her current mood, cold and dead as a nun's.

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On a mountaintop in Tromso, the clouds finally parted for a moment. She urgently asked the Chinese person beside her to help take a photo she could post on her social media.

When the man turned around, she almost dropped her jaw. It was him.

It really was him!

The man she'd once had a crush on for three years.

Blushing and flustered, she struck a pose and frantically racked her brain for how to get him during the rest of the trip.

#The polar night isn't darkness. It's an endless sunset.

#A travel story about a man and woman beneath an endless sunset

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