Ineffective Negation

Coming soon: Green Beans Missed Their Stop. The Little Missing Corner is complete.

This story: bickering couple / playing dumb while secretly being clever

After the college entrance exams, Zhang Yexin moved out of the Lu household.

She took all her belongings with her, leaving behind only the music box Lu Min had given her.

It wasn't that she was heartless. The person who gave her the gift had left even earlier, heading abroad without a backward glance.

Everyone said he did it for his childhood sweetheart.

Zhang Yexin hoped he wouldn't come back, too.

A few years later, he did return to China. When they ran into each other, Zhang Yexin fainted, got into a car accident, had trouble at work, and even had her matchmaking dates fall through.

She knew it. Nothing good ever came of running into Lu Min.

Just like in their senior year of high school, they had been completely at odds and ended things on terrible terms.

With the past between them, there was no point trying to make peace after they'd clashed this badly. Zhang Yexin drew a clear line between them early on.

Lu Min stood on the other side, acting pitiful. "I'm not doing much better than you. I've got a bad leg, a dog to look after, and I'm single."

"..."

They deny everything amid misunderstandings and clash over their prejudices.

Sweet on the surface, sour-faced underneath VS cold in public, shameless in private

The nanny's daughter and her employer's son

A perfectly matched pair of icy, sour-faced weirdos

Lu Min: Secretly wears a matching watch with his wife.

Zhang Yexin: Copycat!

Lu Min: Pretends to be drunk so his wife will take him home.

Zhang Yexin: You shameless little flirt!

Lu Min: Pretends to fall so his wife will comfort him with a hug.

Zhang Yexin: What a drama queen!

"..."

Go ahead and put on an act. I'll deny everything you do!

One acts sweet on the surface.

The other plays dirty in secret.

Bickering sworn enemies meet again, and settle old and new scores alike.

Coming soon: Green Beans Missed Their Stop

At her cousin's birthday party, Ye Pu has no intention of joining in.

But people keep bringing her up.

Like the classmate who mistakes her identity,

and Lin Yizhi, who steps in to help her out.

Ye Pu doesn't know much about Lin Yizhi. She only knows he's her cousin's friend and a top student in the science track.

And that, like her, he likes mung bean shaved ice.

Senior year is a chaotic blur. On the tree-shaded school road on Fridays, at the quiet bus stop, and on buses that are sometimes crowded and sometimes spacious, they walk one behind the other from summer to winter, neither crossing the line.

Until one day, the bus is delayed.

Under the Chinese banyan tree, he steps forward and hands her a cup of hot milk tea.

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