Her roommate invited Bai Ling to go to the bathhouse on a freezing cold day.
Bai Ling showed up as promised, but her roommate was nowhere to be seen.
The shower stalls were at the very back, with no doors or windows. Halfway through her shower, the hot water ran out. The air was thin, her chest felt heavy, and her blood sugar was low. Shivering all over, Bai Ling hurriedly rinsed off the foam, grabbed her basket, and headed out.
The north wind howled, tree branches whipping wildly in the gale as snow blew against her.
Her slender ankles were bare. Shivering with cold, Bai Ling trudged toward her apartment.
There was hardly anyone around. She was nearsighted and had taken off her glasses, so she couldn't tell people from animals beyond six meters.
When she was so cold she was nearly hypothermic, Bai Ling breathed into her hands. Her vision blurred, and she saw a tall, slender boy approaching nearby. Without thinking, she went over and made an unreasonable request. "Can you let me warm up against you?"
Before the boy could react, she put her hands on the back of his neck and cupped his chin, staring at his lips. In her blurry vision, only that soft spot was clear.
As if possessed, she rose onto her toes and kissed his lips.
The warmth returned to her freezing palms. She quickly pulled away, wrapped herself in her pajamas, and scampered back to her dorm like a puppy.
The next day, word spread across the school forum that the campus heartthrob, Chen Yize, had been kissed by a stranger on the street.
There was even a photo of a girl in Cinnamoroll pajamas and Pochacco slippers, scampering away from the second teaching building.
The girls across campus united to condemn her.
Her roommate was furious, too. "What kind of girl does that? Kissing someone on the street without permission! Where are her morals? Her shame? That's so awful. She stole my crush's first kiss!"
Remembering the warmth in her palms and the lingering warmth on her lips, Bai Ling panicked inside, but kept a straight face as she joined in. "Yeah, that's so awful."
Yet in private, she quietly hid her newly bought pajamas and slippers at the bottom of her closet.
Six months later, her roommate came into their room with a magnifying glass and announced that she'd solved the case. "I know who Cinnamoroll is!"
At the apartment entrance, Bai Ling stuffed her boyfriend, whom she'd just finished kissing, into the cabinet by the door. Smiling, she asked, "Who?"
Her roommate held up a pen she'd used to open a package, pointed it around the room, and called out a name. "Ye Siyu, the campus belle!"
Chen Yize stepped out of the cabinet with one hand in his pocket and a blank expression. He hooked a finger around the couple's ring on Bai Ling's hand. "She's my wife."
A few days after the forced-kissing incident, Bai Ling received a friend request on QQ with the note: "Let's see."
She thought it was from a creep. It was finals season, and her thesis had driven her crazy, so she accepted on impulse and spent every day ranting with this person online.
Z: "Who are you?"
Blahblahblah: "Your dad."
Z: "?"
"What class are you in?"
Blahblahblah: "The class of heartsick over you."
Z: ...
Bai Ling pursued him relentlessly, bombarding him with cheesy pickup lines.
At last, Chen Yize couldn't take it anymore and sent: "Let's meet."
Bai Ling immediately replied, "Sorry, handsome, but I'm actually a guy."
"I like guys. Are you okay with that?"
Chen Yize: ???
The heroine is soft and sweet in person, but a powerhouse online.
The hero is the campus golden boy, a cocky, cool guy. Once someone kisses him by force, he can't forget her.
Online and offline, enemies become lovers. They meet in real life after an online romance, guaranteed to be the real deal.
A happy, sweet college romance.
Theme: Love can heal
