Aurora in the North

A wage slave in the real world, so updates are unreliable. Sorry (bows)

Sunny little jinx & hard-of-hearing hockey player | Travel and growth in Part One, rekindled love in Part Two

Recently, a Xiaohongshu blogger suddenly went viral.

At first, her bio had just one line: [My boyfriend's gone missing. I'm going to Canada]

When kindhearted netizens offered to help her file a missing person report, she quickly added: [Don't worry, girls. He's fine, he's just a scumbag]

Going viral is a mystery. One day, her account inexplicably blew up, so she added another line: [I'm not a comedy blogger! No sponsorships!]

The blogger's rise to fame had a unique reason: her life was pure drama.

She went to watch hockey and got caught in the crossfire of a fan scuffle; she went to see grizzly bears and ended up caught in a forest fire.

Finally, during the safest season of the year, she flew to a small city in easternmost Canada.

The account hjrnsnql814 posted an update: [Last stop. No more updates after this]

Curious onlookers couldn't accept it. They thought she was going to deactivate her account and leave the internet, but then another notification appeared:

[Found him. He's messed up]

-

Three months after He Jingrui went missing, You Wenshan's Canadian tourist visa was finally issued.

She flew halfway around the world to Toronto. Despite her jet lag, she went to watch a game at the hockey rink where he trained.

After the game, she was swept out of the venue by the crowd.

Standing in an unfamiliar city, surrounded by a language she didn't understand, You Wenshan felt strangely out of place.

Nobody here knew her. Her story with him meant nothing here. The relationship she'd fought so hard to protect and pursue was weightless in this world.

The world was vast, yet she alone was trapped.

Suddenly, You Wenshan felt at peace. She laughed through her tears.

The next second, she was accidentally struck by a crazed hockey fan and sent to the emergency room.

Pressing an ice pack to her swollen face, You Wenshan angrily posted a note: [Got punched in Toronto. I'm going to make that scumbag pay ten times over!]

Later, she visited places He Jingrui had once mentioned.

Misfortune followed her everywhere, and strange things kept happening.

On her last day in Canada, she finally gave up hope and prepared to leave.

Then her flight was canceled because of a hurricane.

Hotels in town were either closed or fully booked.

You Wenshan sat slumped on an airport chair, feeling like a beggar with nothing left to live for. The kindhearted woman beside her suggested, "Why don't you stay at my place? We run a bed and breakfast, and we have a spare room."

You Wenshan tearfully thanked her for taking her in.

With the hurricane approaching and no taxis available, the woman called her "most reliable" lodger to pick them up at the airport.

The person who got out of the black SUV looked more and more familiar.

You Wenshan was put in the passenger seat. She got a good look at that long-missed face, and saw the outline of a hearing aid behind his right ear.

That evening, she cornered him on the stairs. Having to tilt her head up slightly to meet his eyes, she asked, "Did you hurt your ear?"

He Jingrui didn't look at her. His eyes were hidden in the shadow cast by his fringe, giving nothing away.

"Is that why you didn't dare see me?"

He didn't react.

You Wenshan laughed softly. "Do you think you're some kind of handsome novel hero?"

Still silent.

"Coward! Scumbag!" You Wenshan spun around in a fury. Before closing the door, she felt she hadn't said enough and added an insult: "Dumbass!"

A little while later, someone knocked on her door.

When she opened it, she met He Jingrui's guilt-ridden eyes. "I'm sorry..."

You Wenshan's heart softened at once, and her eyes even reddened.

She was just about to speak when He Jingrui added, "I wasn't wearing my hearing aid earlier. What did you say?"

"..."

You Wenshan punched him ten times.

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You Wenshan's Xiaohongshu account became popular among Chinese people in Canada.

He Jingrui's friend brought it up: "There's this blogger who's been looking for her boyfriend, and she's come all the way to Halifax. It's hilarious. Who would come all the way to a dump like this?"

He Jingrui sipped his drink without replying.

"Hey, what does the blogger's username mean?" His friend read it out letter by letter. "Hjrn..."

He Jingrui glanced over and interrupted in a flat voice: "He Jingrui, where the hell did you go?"

His friend froze for a moment, then exploded. "So you're the scumbag!"

"..."

"...And what's the 814 at the end?"

"The day I ran away."

Blurb posted on January 10, 2026. Saved for the record.

*Female-lead story, focused on growth and healing, heartwarming, slow burn. The male lead appears infrequently in Part One.

*Some ensemble cast elements.

*Domestic place names in the story are fictional, while the Canadian place names are real.

Coming soon: Fate Line

Mischievous girl & timid boy | Heartwarming | Boarding-house story | Not-quite-step-siblings

The year of the earthquake, Jiang Cen was seven.

The road back to Nanling was cut off. Her mother walked through the mountains for more than ten hours, returning with news that Jiang Cen's father and grandmother had died, and with a mud-covered boy.

Her mother said, "Call him your brother. He'll be part of our family from now on."

Jiang Cen glanced at Wen Yachen, then turned and went back inside.

Jiang Cen couldn't stand him. He took up half her bedroom, and he was always hiding in the bathroom crying, making her run to the neighboring courtyard in the middle of the night to use the toilet.

Later, he left without a word. Jiang Cen said, "That annoying coward's finally gone."

Many years later, Nanling shook once again.

Jiang Cen was among the first mental health counselors sent to the disaster-stricken town, but she was caught in a landslide on the way. She lost consciousness, and when she was rescued, she hazily saw a face that seemed familiar.

He was covered in mud again, standing amid the ruins. "Don't be afraid. I'll get you out of here."

The coward had grown into a reliable adult.

But one day, Jiang Cen was unexpectedly assigned a night shift on the same day as Wen Yachen.

Unable to sleep, she left her room and saw that Wen Yachen's room was dark, but the bathroom light was still on.

After hesitating for a moment, she went over and knocked.

There was no answer.

Jiang Cen sighed and said, "Want me to hold you while you sleep, big brother?"

Jiang Cen often stood on a hill above the town, looking at the endless mountain range in the distance.

She said to Wen Yachen, "Do you see that mountain range? It's this town's fate line."

"As long as it remains unbroken, this town is still alive."

So don't be afraid.

"You repair this town."

"I'll heal the people who stay here."

*Heartwarming and healing

*The male lead has psychological trauma, but he will recover later on

*Both leads are strong in their respective fields

*A small-town story

*The male lead only boards with the female lead's family for a while. He is not adopted.

Theme: The world is vast. I want to go see it.