Dear Song Qingyao

Important: A narcissistic romance! You fall in love with yourself.

| An aloof, fake-gentle, immature older woman x a straightforward, well-behaved, sensible child

If you could go back to the past, what would you most want to change?

Lin Wan had repeated her answer countless times: change her mother’s fate, even if the price was her own life.

Everyone knew it was wishful thinking, but she kept praying, over and over.

This time, her dream came true.

She became a bystander, watching her mother’s life and Song Qingyao’s. Everything was just right, except... she couldn’t bring herself to calmly abandon that helpless, frightened child.

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In a rainy alley when she was eight, Song Qingyao met a strange older sister.

A little clumsy, like a cold pine soaked by the rain, a stranger who somehow knew everything about her.

She appeared suddenly and vanished just as suddenly.

Years later, when Song Qingyao was just beginning to fall in love, she met her again.

Amid the hazy spring rain, the woman walked toward her with a smile. Her hair was slightly curled and yellowish, her eyes misty. She looked exactly the same as she had back then.

Song Qingyao stared at her for a long time, her heart pounding.

She hid her rapidly growing feelings, and as always, acted spoiled and pretended to be a sensible, well-behaved child.

Everything stayed the same until she couldn’t hold back on a torrentially rainy night and stole a kiss from her.

*

Lin Wan never expected that when they met again after she had fled, she would see Song Qingyao being affectionate with someone else.

She had no right to interfere, so she applauded and offered her congratulations.

In the middle of the night, the child, who already knew the truth, secretly climbed into bed and kissed her lips again. Her words were full of hurt: “Sister, we’re the people who understand each other best. We belong together, don’t we?”

Tears fell onto the skin of her neck, so hot that she shivered. The tears mingled with an indistinct plea: “Don’t push me away.”

“Please.”

Lin Wan, who had been pretending to sleep, froze with her hand raised to push Song Qingyao away. Then she wrapped her arm around her and tilted her chin up.

“All right.”

She couldn’t help it. She always went soft for her.

[I know all the things you say but don’t mean. I know the little habits you have when you lie, because we’re the same person.]

Reading Guide:

1. A story of self-redemption.

2. The child first appears at eight, but doesn’t start falling in love until sixteen. Intimate scenes take place when she’s over twenty!

3. A cozy, everyday-life story.

Coming next: Has Police Officer Lou Fallen in Love Today?

A cowardly, flirtatious artist who loves to beg for attention x a cool, confident detective

Because she hated meeting people, He Jiao stayed home after graduation, earning a little money by drawing comics and taking commission work.

She lived on boiled food and takeout, and could go ten or fifteen days without stepping outside.

One night under a starry sky, she finally decided to go out for a walk and get some fresh air. But when she came back, she found someone had broken into her home.

With a knife at her throat, He Jiao thought it was a real shame to die without ever having been in a relationship.

So she pitifully said to the “intruder,” “I’ve never been in a relationship. Could we sleep together before I die?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be good. I have a nice voice, too.”

Looking at the woman’s sincere expression, the “intruder,” Lou Yin: “...”

*

One night after they got together, Lou Yin restrained He Jiao again. “Ms. He, you are suspected of distributing pornography. I’m placing you under arrest.”

He Jiao turned to look. In Lou Yin’s hand was a drawing she had made of Lou Yin in a fantasy, showing the woman with her clothes in disarray and her curves exposed.

Caught red-handed by the very person she had drawn, He Jiao snuggled up to the righteous Officer Lou. “Officer, I’ve been wronged. I’m just being lewd, I haven’t distributed anything.”

Lou Yin had prepared a whole speech, but... “You really didn’t need to be that honest.”

The next moment, warm breath brushed He Jiao’s earlobe, and the woman’s whisper matched the beating of her heart. “Still, Officer Lou can arrest me.”

*

After they got married, He Jiao often congratulated herself on how well her “seduction” had worked. It was what made the aloof Officer Lou fall for her.

Thinking back on their school days, she joked to Lou Yin, “If I told you I’d secretly had a crush on you for years, would you feel like you got the short end of the stick?”

Lou Yin leaned close, the tips of their noses brushing as their hot breaths mingled. “Then guess whether I’d been plotting this for a long time, and whether I wanted it all along.”

Lou Yin: You said your world was dark and dim, but I’ve seen the bright moon that is you.

Outwardly shameless x secretly shameless

Theme: Life is a journey through hardship, so move forward bravely