Confession Procrastination

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■ Procrastinating, laid-back college girl x all-around top student and insanely competitive B-king

■ Both leads are each other's salvation (and put each other through the wringer, not really) | College campus

After the basketball tournament at Huada ended, Ming Yao finally worked up the courage to stop Xu Juan amid the cheers. Stammering, she said she had something important to tell him.

She was actually planning to confess her feelings.

The young man looked up. Seeing the usually reserved girl blushing bright red, he had his answer ready on the tip of his tongue. He discreetly curled his lips into a smile, already planning where to take her on their date the next day.

Ming Yao stood in front of him, then suddenly remembered all the project work she still hadn't finished. At last, she said, "I'll tell you tomorrow."

Then she fled in a panic.

A friend cautiously asked Xu Juan, "Did you do something to upset her?"

Xu Juan was completely baffled. "Bullshit."

-

Ming Yao had bright eyes, pretty teeth, and a pure, lovely look. She seemed like a harmless, model student, but suffered from severe procrastination.

After getting into Huada's aerospace program by sheer dumb luck, she made a list of important goals for her life:

1. Don't fail advanced math.

2. Try dating someone.

3. Don't come last in the department.

Many days after meeting Xu Juan, she added a fourth item, which was also very important.

Confess to Xu Juan as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, her procrastination never went away.

She crossed out her life plan and wrote one sentence in its place: Stop being such a slacker!!!

-

It wasn't until Xu Juan's birthday party that he finally understood, after Ming Yao had wrestled with whether to keep slacking off or get her act together and rehearsed her confession yet again.

So she wasn't shy after all.

Xu Juan put on a serious face. "There's something wrong with you."

Ming Yao: "?"

Xu Juan scolded her. "Your procrastination is at least in its terminal stage."

Ming Yao was shocked, but still couldn't bring herself to look down at her toes. She gave up and asked, "Is there any hope for me?"

"There is."

Away from everyone, Xu Juan tugged on the hem of her skirt. Nearby, people were searching for the two who'd slipped away, making quite a commotion.

In her panic, Ming Yao felt his lips brush the corner of hers.

"Stop waiting. Love me now."

tips:

1. Set on a college campus. Both leads study flight design, and there are some competition-related storylines.

2. There are also everyday storylines, including group assignments, dorm gossip, and all kinds of chaotic competitions, graduate school applications, and entrance exams. It may feel a little too relatable, so you might feel like your own disastrous school is grinding you into the dirt as you read.

My next book is open for pre-orders. Here's the blurb. Feel free to follow me or suggest what you'd like me to cook up. A famous chef is cooking live (not really).

"Your Ears Say You Like Me"

[On the surface, a sweet girl with a disability, but actually a top student and fierce little devil who takes the world by storm x A born winner who bows his head only to her]

(High school and college campus)

In her senior year of high school, Jiang Ting, carrying a knockoff Converse bag and wearing fake streetwear, bumped into Chen Shu. Frowning at the smell of her cheap perfume, Chen Shu brushed her aside as though he were scraping a piece of trash off himself.

The girl nervously stammered as she handed him a letter. He slapped it away, then turned and left without expression.

He'd never seen such a low-class way of hitting on someone.

As he turned, he suddenly heard two words, spoken with perfect diction.

"Dumbass."

Chen Shu looked back in disbelief, only to find that the girl had already slipped away.

-

Chen Shu took the little incident as a chance encounter.

That night, when he got home, his mother, the school principal, reminded him that a younger girl would be staying with them for a while. The girl had a disability, was timid and well-behaved, and was like a little fairy. He absolutely mustn't bully her.

The next day, his mother brought the little fairy home.

Curious, Chen Shu came face-to-face with the little devil who'd sworn at him the day before.

As if she hadn't insulted him yesterday, she obediently held out her hand and greeted him with a stammer.

"H-hello."

He looked down at her and noticed the ugly hearing aids on her ears. Without mercy, he said, "Little deaf girl."

His mother scolded him and told him to get along with his new little sister. The little deaf girl took two steps forward and sweetly called him "Big Brother." Out of sight, she stomped on his foot with all her strength.

Chen Shu watched the little devil, who had nearly broken his toes, move into the room next door with a battered suitcase containing everything she owned.

Every morning, Chen Shu saw her head out with a shabby bag on her back. They went to the same school, but she insisted on taking a different route, tossing her head as her ponytail swished from side to side.

After getting to know her, Chen Shu began to wonder whether the Jiang Ting he knew was even the same person everyone else knew.

To everyone else, Jiang Ting was a little angel, gentle and sweet, and diligent in her studies.

In his eyes, she was a thoroughly wicked little demon. She was in the same class as him, sitting in the southeast corner while he sat in the northwest.

Their only interaction came when Jiang Ting, who'd eagerly volunteered to be class representative, came to collect his homework and knocked twice on his desk.

Chen Shu, asleep with his head on his desk, couldn't be bothered to respond. The little deaf girl simply shoved him aside, rummaged through his desk, took his homework, then called him a clear and crisp

"Dumbass."

He shot back, "Deaf girl."

-

Chen Shu and Jiang Ting's worlds were like parallel lines, never meant to meet.

At a school for students with disabilities, Jiang Ting stumbled through countless hardships. Without her hearing aids, people had called her a little deaf girl more times than she could count. Once she learned to read lips, she'd kick them. She grew up wild and resilient, and simply staying alive was hard enough. She never dared to hope for anything from the future.

Chen Shu of Huacheng No. 1 High School had been born a winner. Everything went smoothly for him, and the dreams ordinary people longed for were right within his reach, easy to grasp.

That's how everyone thought things were supposed to be.

But Jiang Ting didn't see it that way. Before meeting Chen Shu, she had no dreams. After meeting him, she found the resolve to fight her way out of her dark world.

-

By coincidence, Chen Shu's birthday fell on the day they graduated. After the college entrance exam, their brief time living together would come to an end. At Chen Shu's birthday party, their friends teased them, laughing that the two who'd always rubbed each other the wrong way would go their separate ways from then on.

Quite a few girls at the party offered him drinks, and he accepted every one. That night, he drank himself into a stupor in silence and lay on the floor, refusing to get up. His friends were at a loss, debating whether they should carry him upstairs.

At that moment, they heard footsteps on the stairs. The usually quiet girl came downstairs without a word, picked up a book, and started back up.

Chen Shu, drunk out of his mind, suddenly stood up and called her name. She didn't react.

The usually cool, well-mannered young master suddenly started acting like a drunken fool. He ran up to Jiang Ting, gestured wildly, and shouted that he couldn't stand girls like her. His friends forcibly dragged him upstairs, but he still turned around and flipped Jiang Ting off.

Later, his college friends played back the birthday party vlog to publicly roast him. Laughing, they pointed out that he and Jiang Ting had ended up at the same university, so they'd still managed to cross paths.

Only one girl, who'd gone to a teachers' college to study sign language, froze. She saw it all clearly: the rebellious boy pointed to himself, gently stroked his fingers with his right hand, then pointed his index finger at her.

It was the simplest sign language of all:

"I love you."

The girl gazed at him for a moment, unmoved. The usually proud young man froze, then continued signing:

"You like me, don't you?"

#Her world was silent, but his love was deafening#

Theme: Study hard