Summer Blaze

I revise the story without warning all the time, making plenty of deletions, additions, and changes. I hope my dear readers will support the official version > <

Coming soon: [Love's Cause, Illness's Effect]. A female ghost and a male ghost become entangled with each other. The blurb is at the very bottom.

[Full manuscript completed]

[All-rounder genius heroine x sweet-on-the-outside, scheming-on-the-inside top student hero]

Zhuo Yuyi is Zhang Zhijin's inner demon.

From elementary school to high school, she loomed over him like a storm, an opponent he could never defeat, the nightmare that haunted him.

She was radiant, passionate, carefree, and loved whistling at handsome boys.

She couldn't see him, remember him, or recognize him, even though she'd whistled at him several times.

He thought about making friends with her, but Zhuo Yuyi asked a classmate, "Who's Zhang Zhijing? Not interested."

He swore he would never run after her like a dog, begging to get acquainted.

His diaries were filled with "I hate you," one after another. He said, "I don't pay attention to her," while doing everything he could to make her look his way for even a moment. He never succeeded.

In private, Zhang Zhijin crawled around in the dark, while keeping a smile on his face in public.

It didn't matter. He had plenty of time and tricks up his sleeve. He was determined to cling to her for the rest of his life.

By chance, Zhuo Yuyi meets a cute, easily embarrassed little prude and can't help teasing him from time to time.

She thinks they'll just be friends, but when she's about to leave, Zhang Zhijin chases after her and hugs her, sobbing.

Zhuo Yuyi is stunned. "You li..."

"I hate you."

Zhuo Yuyi: ?

He brings out a box and confesses that for more than ten years, he's collected all sorts of things she's thrown away.

Zhuo Yuyi: ??

He looks pitiful, sensible, and considerate. "I'm not like other guys. I'm content just to stay by your side. Whatever you do to me, I won't cling to you and demand that you take responsibility or give me a title."

Zhuo Yuyi: ????

Reader's guide:

The male lead is a camera-eye character.

The early story focuses on the heroine's life and friends. She won't meet the hero right away.

A bit of an ensemble cast.

For plot reasons, the story is set during the old university entrance exam era. This won't affect your reading.

Coming soon: [Love's Cause, Illness's Effect]

[Two slightly yandere, darkly obsessive characters]

Xing Qingyun has been watching the coffee shop employee for a long time.

He's exactly her type. It must be fate.

But after a few messy relationships, she's lost interest and keeps wearing a ring to ward off admirers.

Looking at him from afar is enough. She's sworn never to hurt anyone again.

Wei Zhuo has been watching the poker-faced woman for a long time.

Each time she comes in, they share a few seconds together.

She doesn't look at him, and he doesn't look at her. He only keeps an eye on her ring out of the corner of his eye.

He wants to be with her, to cling to her forever, to do whatever it takes to win her attention.

He hates the person who put a ring on her finger and claimed her as a partner.

Wei Zhuo doesn't dare reveal a thing, afraid she'll avoid him and never come back.

Every day, he curses her partner to drop dead so he can take their place. He gets scammed out of 1,314 yuan by a fortune-teller, then learns witchcraft himself after reflecting on the experience.

She stops coming by.

Two weeks later, she returns.

The ring is gone.

Wei Zhuo takes on all sorts of part-time jobs to cover his university expenses. One day, he gets a cat-feeding job from a regular customer in the same residential compound as her.

He enters and calls for the cat, only to see the owner, who should be out.

It's her.

Wei Zhuo's heart plunges, then leaps. His hand trembles on the doorknob, and he accidentally touches the screen.

Click. Click. The two locks slide into place.

He can't escape.

*

Xing Qingyun strokes the deep bite mark on Wei Zhuo's shoulder. Her bloodstained fingers trace his jawline, as if inking a sketch.

She smiles and muses, "If I turned you into a specimen and set you by my bed, I could look at you every second of every day."

He would gladly let her, but in the end, she is the one who throws him away.

Wei Zhuo falls apart, tormented by pain, rage, and despair. At last, he decides to flee alone to the place where the two of them once agreed to die.

Halfway there, in the endless sea of people, he feels her cold gaze on him again.

He can't escape.

He should hate her, but all he feels is grateful, delirious joy at finally receiving the rain he longed for.

I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape. I can't escape...

I finally can't escape.

Symbiotic strangulation, Xing Qingyun writes in her diary.

Symbiosis: plants grow closely together. Strangulation: they compete for nutrients, suppressing or even killing each other.

Excessive dependence, freedom confined, growth made impossible.

Entwined as tightly as they can be, they weep and bleed, living and dying together.

Theme: Women can save the world too