Tang Li's Summer

[Second revision, updated by 80,000 words!]

Happy puppy vs. Iceberg goddess

Secret crush | Rivals-to-lovers dynamic | Two top students | Ensemble cast | Reunion after years apart

In her second year of high school, Tang Li transferred to Beichuan No. 1 High School with the highest science-track score in the province. Who could have guessed that on her very first day, she'd stumble upon an "office theft"?

The person busy stealing comic books and an MP3 player was none other than the class math representative, famous throughout the school as the "provincial runner-up forever": Lu Yang.

He had the looks, the height, the long legs, a clean-cut aura, and all the freshness of youth, yet he insisted on making her his accomplice.

Staring at his face, Tang Li suddenly remembered the idiot from downstairs in her apartment building the day before, who'd hit her phone with a ball and sent it flying.

It was him again.

She didn't want anything more to do with him, so when the "idiot" eagerly invited her to share his desk, she walked away without looking back.

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At her first mock exam after transferring, Tang Li thought she'd done poorly, but she still got first place and, without meaning to, beat the math representative again.

She glanced over out of the corner of her eye. Lu Yang's popularity was obvious: a huge crowd had gathered around his seat. Someone teased him about always coming in second. He didn't get mad. He just laughed.

Tang Li hadn't expected him to look her way. As she hurriedly looked away, she saw him give her a generous thumbs-up.

Tang Li went up to receive her certificate. Applause for her rang out without end, and she'd never imagined that the reward for taking first place would come with an extra performance by the class representative.

Lu Yang stood up and said, "Then I'll perform something for everyone... I'll read out a self-criticism!"

It was a strange sight: the two of them stood on the platform. Tang Li had won first place and was too embarrassed to look up, while the boy beside her read his self-criticism with infectious cheer.

The whole class laughed in waves. But Tang Li suddenly raised her head, and amid the commotion, she fell into his bright, smiling eyes from close up. In that instant, the world fell silent.

She clapped for him without thinking. When she came to her senses, all she could think was, Well, I've already clapped.

And so, no matter how many excuses Lu Yang found to get close to her, make her laugh, try to make her lose her temper, and then find all sorts of ways to cheer her up, again and again, she kept thinking, Fine, whatever... Oh, fine...

"May the young always be open-hearted and bright, forever belonging to summer."

#"The basketball court and the library are separated by only a pane of glass. Looking from either side, it's the same: I like you."

#Pure love, pure love, pure love above all!

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Blurb screenshot: 2.25.2025. Updated: 6.4.2026

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The completed novel next door: Mr. Dawn

Melancholy-sweet writer girl x gentle retired entertainer

Reunion after years apart | Sapiosexual romance | Healing | Ensemble cast

In the winter at the end of 2019, Chen Qianyi did something big. She quit her unsatisfying job, left the city, and returned to Shibai Town, cloaked in mist at the foot of the mountain.

It was pouring the day she returned, and the whole mountain was shrouded in fog.

Sitting on a jolting bus, Chen Qianyi suddenly remembered what they'd said years ago when she left: "Shibai. Failure. Only failures come back here."

So, was that really the truth?

"No."

"Chen Qianyi, you've never been one to accept defeat."

The person who told Chen Qianyi that was named Xie Zhili.

A remarkable man who debuted as a trainee at twenty and left the entertainment industry at twenty-five after a brief, single-cycle career.

Chen Qianyi remembered the first time she'd met him. It was the summer she was fifteen.

He was a friend of her older brother's band, tall and handsome enough to make it impossible to look away. Even passing dogs couldn't help taking a second look at him.

Chen Qianyi remembered it especially clearly. That day, she'd carried a stool and half a watermelon to the bus stop early to wait for them. When the two of them came to a stop in front of her, her face was covered in watermelon seeds.

So embarrassing, so embarrassing, so embarrassing!

Oh, heavens, please erase this memory from the mind of the person I like!

Huh? Wait... Wait!

At that moment, Xie Zhili was standing right in front of her, looking at her with unfamiliar detachment.

As if they had never met, in this life or any other.

Come on, Heaven. You took that a little too literally.

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Chen Qianyi thought that if she left the big city, she'd feel better, her health would improve, her insomnia would go away, and everything would be fine.

At three thirty in the morning, she found the only convenience store in town that still had its lights on. As it happened, they were cooking her favorite oden and roasting corn.

The days she'd once called "useless" and even "wasted" became colorful: endless conversations, walking home together, cooking together... And together, they made it through the winters of their lives.

"When night falls, I want your embrace."

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