Crossing the Line

This is a very heartwarming story~

[Mutual Secret Crush] [Reunion After Years Apart]

The pinnacle of the pastry world & the pinnacle of the music world

A brash, handsome bad boy & a gentle, sweet girl

[Original] After graduating from high school, Zhou Nian went abroad in a fit of anger because of a misunderstanding involving a letter, along with other reasons. She was gone for four years. When she returned, she was invited to a class reunion, never expecting to run into the person she'd had a crush on in high school. Before leaving the country, she'd promised herself she would never like him again, but the moment she saw him, her once-calm heart stirred.

Zhou Nian admitted it: she was wavering.

Blurb 1.

In the late winter of her sophomore year, Zhou Nian met a boy. He shone like the sun, a gifted young man and the pride and hope of the whole school.

On a cold, rainy day,

the girl crouched on the ground, holding her only umbrella over a stray cat while she herself got soaked.

The boy didn't understand. He asked her, "Are you stupid?"

The girl shook her head and gently pointed at the kitten. "I can run home even if I get wet, but it can't."

Later, the girl and the boy became desk mates. The childish pair drew a line down the middle of their desk, but she began to doze off, her head slowly tipping toward him.

"Zhou Nian, you're crossing the line."

The boy's laughter was soft, but it stirred ripples in her heart.

Blurb 2.

At the Christmas Eve class reunion, no one could have imagined that he would show up. The man's features were as handsome as a painting, just as they had been four years ago, though he seemed more composed and less boyish.

Zhang Xuyi glanced at everyone and smiled. "What? Don't recognize me?"

The first thing Zhou Nian wanted to do when she saw him was run away.

The contents of that letter from four years ago came back to her.

"Can you stop bothering me? I really hate this."

At the reunion that followed, Zhou Nian was distracted and got drunk.

On the way to take her home, Zhang Xuyi looked at her peaceful sleeping face and pressed his lips together. As if talking to himself, he murmured, "Zhou Nian, this time, I'm the one crossing the line."

Theme: Every encounter in this world is a reunion after a long separation.