I Don't Want to Be Just Your Friend

In their second year of high school, Xu Huaichuan took a special interest in a girl.

He heard she was a little aloof, so he racked his brains trying to figure out how to befriend a girl like that.

Every now and then, he would create an opportunity to reach out, then make sure she saw him around often enough to remember him. At last, one day, she noticed him.

Then he discovered she wasn’t aloof at all. She was actually a… liar!

The first time, she promised she wouldn’t tell the teacher he’d climbed over the wall.

The second time, she pretended to be an upperclassman and tricked him into obediently calling her “senior.”

The third time, he thought she might have played with his feelings?

Chen Wanyu saw him again after starting university.

She found that he’d changed from the boy she remembered. He’d become… incredibly, incredibly, incredibly good at convincing himself she liked him.

She called him crazy, and he looked pleased. “If she hits you, she likes you. If she scolds you, she loves you.”

In summary: You love me.

She took him to the campus clinic, and he was overjoyed. “You could’ve just ignored me, but you didn’t. You even went to the clinic to get disinfectant for me. You’re so good to me.”

“…??”

//

A reunion after a long separation.

An old almost-romance who’s an expert at convincing himself he’s loved.

A heartbreaker who knows how to handle a hopeless romantic.

Theme: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Even a frog can become a prince.