※Also known as How the Beloved One Falls in Love with Someone Who Goes Unnoticed
※An exceptionally cheerful, kind, resilient sweet girl x a barely noticeable, mildly world-weary top student
1.
There’s no one who doesn’t like Jiang Lingyue. She’s an outgoing, happy puppy. Though her nickname is TuTu, she’s always enthusiastically wagging her tail at everyone like a dog.
So on her very first day of high school, she warmly complimented her deskmate’s name.
“Lu Baiyu... Your name is so lovely! Baiyu is another name for the stars, isn’t it? ‘What lies in the heavens? White elms are scattered everywhere.’”
Though her deskmate coolly brushed her off with, “My parents probably didn’t put that much thought into it when they named me,” she didn’t take it to heart at all.
There’s no one who likes Lu Baiyu.
Actually, no one even notices Lu Baiyu. His presence is so low it’s practically outrageous.
The teacher doesn’t notice him when he raises his hand in class. His neighbors don’t notice him when he greets them. Even at home, his parents often forget they have an eldest son.
He rebelled, fought back, and had breakdowns... Then he accepted his fate.
After that, he stopped making futile efforts to draw people’s attention.
Until the day they met again in college, when he walked up to a girl and introduced himself.
“My name is Lu Baiyu. Baiyu, as in ‘What lies in the heavens? White elms are scattered everywhere.’”
“What’s your name?”
That bright moon once again shone tenderly on this star, one that nobody had ever hoped for.
2.
People say everyone is the protagonist of their own life.
Jiang Lingyue believed this without a doubt. Even when she met Lu Baiyu, whose presence seemed like a bug in the world, she never questioned it.
She firmly took his hand, a hand that had grown hesitant and hopeless after repeated attempts.
She pulled him out of the sea he was drowning in, then drew him into her own brilliant, colorful world.
People say everyone is the protagonist of their own life.
But that wasn’t true for Lu Baiyu, because even in his own life, he was just an extra whom everyone overlooked.
Until Jiang Lingyue appeared.
Somehow, she saw him, stepped into his world, and reached out her hand.
However many times the world erased him, she redrew him with love, kindness, and sincerity just as many times.
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[I drink, in pain, from the long river of being forgotten by the world
But if fate’s course leads to your forgetting me, I’ll defy everything and swim upstream]
Reader’s guide:
1. From school uniforms to wedding gowns, the leads are devoted to each other in a one-on-one relationship.
2. A story of healing. A self-indulgent labor of love by the author, with no concern for logic.
3. They don’t start dating until they’re eighteen.
Theme: The limits of fate may remain forever, but defiant challenge is indispensable at every moment
