You Don't See Me

A cool, cocky pilot * a gentle, sensitive restorer

At eighteen, Tao Shuran transferred to Linchuan High School for her senior year.

She remembered the sunset that evening, blazing across the sky, vivid as an oil painting.

At the time, Liang Yuanjing leaped into the air with the setting sun at his back and sank a three-pointer.

The cheers around him never stopped. He tugged at his lips in a careless smile, cool and proud, his posture languid.

Liang Yuanjing was famous at Linchuan High. He had a terrible temper and a cold personality. He could skip every evening study session to play basketball and still rank among the top students.

He was every inch the favored son of heaven.

Tao Shuran knew all this.

Because this was the third year she had secretly loved Liang Yuanjing.

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From the moment she started school, Tao Shuran became the focus of her classmates’ gossip.

Her new classmates were disappointed that Liang Yuanjing had skipped class to play basketball and missed the gentle, approachable new girl everyone had heard about. His friends urged him to join them in going to the academic affairs office to help her pick up her books.

Before they could finish, Liang Yuanjing cut them off impatiently. His voice was cool. "I'm not going."

"Not interested."

The day they parted was also an evening painted in deep, inky hues.

Liang Yuanjing leaned against the railing and finished a cigarette. In the wind, the outline of his brows was cast over the girl's slender silhouette.

A while later, he ground out the cigarette and spoke in a cool voice.

"Tao Shuran."

"We’ve broken up. Don’t see me again."

-

Later, they met again. The arrogant man leaned against the railing, smoking, just as he had in all those moments of youth. Tao Shuran stood behind him, trying not to draw attention, watching him.

She never expected Liang Yuanjing to turn around so suddenly, much less to walk toward her.

"You don’t answer my calls or reply to my texts."

"Tao Shuran, you don’t want to see me..."

"Are you still angry with me?"

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On the day of the hundred-day countdown pledge ceremony, Xia Mian shouted her goal at the sky.

"I’m definitely getting into Qing University this year!"

During the summer after the college entrance exams, she slipped into an empty classroom at dusk and wrote down the secret she had hidden for years.

"I’m definitely going to win Zhou Jiasu over this year!"

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As it happened, Zhou Jiasu had returned to school that day to drop off some documents.

The sky beneath the sunset was dyed a brilliant red, its rich, glazed colors like a dazzling oil painting, set off by the girl's clear eyes and bright smile.

Zhou Jiasu leaned against the railing with his arms braced on it. He narrowed his eyes and looked toward the blackboard. He knew her name was Xia Mian.

But he didn’t know she liked him.

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