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Super-strong girl x straightforward boy
Mutual healing | Reunion after a long separation | Devoted love | Both sexually inexperienced
School-life arc: 170,000+ words; city-life arc: 60,000+ words
1.
Ten years ago, her father's mistress showed up at their door with her child, and her parents divorced. Gu Mei changed overnight.
Gu Mei thought ten winters were enough to freeze her solid, and that she would spend her whole life mired in gloom. Then Lin Chizhou appeared and became her eleventh spring.
Lin Chizhou told her she could be herself around him.
She told Lin Chizhou:
"Birds should yearn for the sky, not the Valley of Thorns. Lin Chizhou, I'm not a good person."
Lin Chizhou gave her an answer she never expected:
"I was never a bird to begin with, and you aren't the Valley of Thorns. Your life should have begun on a rose-lined road. If the road gets rough, I can give you a ride, whenever you need me."
Gu Mei thought this was the heavens' way of making it up to her. But fate had other plans. One medical report earned her a plane ticket and shattered the future she had hoped for.
Lin Chizhou searched the world for her like a madman, but never found a trace of her.
2.
Seven years later, Gu Mei, living far from home, learned from a friend that Lin Chizhou was getting married.
After drinking herself into a stupor, Gu Mei decided not to disrupt Lin Chizhou's life. But unable to let go of her feelings, she boarded a plane back home.
She thought she would just look at him from a distance. Just once.
Even if he was going to marry someone else.
Theme: Life goes on.
