Dear Young Lady, I Love You 365 Times

[Complete manuscript finished]

When they first met, the girl with hair dyed every color under the sun narrowed her eyes and said, "Chu Wen, do you like girls like me?"

Chu Wen's voice was cold. "No."

Later, on a dark, humid night thick with the sound of cicadas, after the girl had given in to passion, she asked hoarsely once more, "Chu Wen, do you like me?"

"No."

Still the same cold three words. Chunli froze, then fell silent.

After a long while, she said awkwardly, "Then I don't like you either."

Chu Wen's surname wasn't Chu. Her name was Yi Chuwen, but she hated the character "Yi," so she took her maternal grandfather's surname instead.

She didn't like Shen Chunli. Aside from her maternal grandparents, there was no one she cared for. That summer before she went abroad had been nothing more than a way to amuse herself by teasing a puppy.

Yi Chuwen had always thought Shen Chunli was an insignificant passerby in her life, until she lost her composure after returning to China and seeing a couple on the street.

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Shen Chunli's love was passionate and wholehearted, and she wasn't afraid to show it.

In the fifth year after she'd been abandoned, Shen Chunli said to Chuwen, "What right do you have to control me?"

In the third year after they met again, Shen Chunli said to Chuwen, "My dear young lady, I only love you 365 times a year!"

*Yi Chuwen is a little wicked (or maybe very wicked)

Theme: A broken mirror can be mended, but it's not easy