My Crush of Eight Years Became a Monk

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*Blurb:

A slow-witted, snail-paced young woman x a proud young master who gets jealous easily

Second chance at love | Secret crush becomes mutual | The male lead finally takes his place

A fortune-teller said Chi Mo's destined partner would appear when she was twenty-six. If she missed her chance, she'd have to wait until her next life.

So, on the last day of her twenty-sixth year, she turned around and headed up the mountain to pray.

"Heaven, please send me all the handsome men and pretty boys."

She held the carefully chosen love charm to her heart and bowed three times, when a resentful voice drifted down from above her head.

"So you finally broke up with him?"

"?"

Chi Mo abruptly looked up, stunned to see a perfectly proportioned man leaning out from behind a display case. He lifted the curtain with one hand, a row of prayer plaques perched on his head, and stared down at her with cool eyes.

This has to be a ghost!

Wasn't that Cheng Yuzhou, the guy she'd had a crush on for eight years?!

"Uh... you... did you become a monk?"

/

Cheng Yuzhou thought he was incredibly unlucky.

He'd psyched himself up for ages before daring to attend the class reunion, only to open the door and find Chi Mo getting all lovey-dovey with his sworn enemy.

With all his pent-up anger and nowhere to vent it, he turned and practically fled.

After secretly liking Chi Mo for eight years, Cheng Yuzhou had become a walking vat of vinegar, fermenting more jealous with every passing day.

He'd gone looking for somewhere quiet, but the "inner demon" who stirred his heart had followed him again.

The more Cheng Yuzhou thought about it, the more frustrated he got. He walked straight out from behind the display case and clutched the pink love charm in her hand tightly in his own.

He couldn't help asking, "Chi Mo, what does he have that I don't?"

/

No one in the world could be better than Cheng Yuzhou. Chi Mo had always thought so.

The girls who admired him could circle the Earth three times. Who was she, anyway?

Luckily, she was clever and quick-witted. More importantly, she knew her place.

Men with two legs were everywhere.

She wasn't about to hang herself from one tree.

/

The whole world knew it was a one-sided love, except Chi Mo, who was completely in the dark.

Chi Mo always thought of Cheng Yuzhou as a banner atop a snow-covered peak that she had to climb to claim. She never realized that all these years, while she was trying to reach the summit, he had been quietly watching her from behind.

#Both virgins #Happy ending

*Upcoming novel blurb

"The finest part of my life, the deepest part of me, is something only you have the gift to understand."

/

The first time He Du saw Zhou Yige was through the eyes of a mascot costume.

The amusement park was lively, but dark clouds seemed to hang over his head alone.

His face was pale, and there was a beauty mark beneath the corner of his eye.

He Du recognized that look.

It was the same one she used to wear when she'd grown tired of life.

The evening parade was about to begin. She lifted the hand of the guide beside her and pointed toward Zhou Yige, hidden beneath the trees.

/

The first time Zhou Yige went to the amusement park was the day before he planned to kill himself.

He stood outside the crowd, staring at the mascot rabbit surrounded by people in the distance, clutching his suicide note.

"Sir! Sir!"

Just as he turned to leave, someone called out from behind him.

Zhou Yige looked back. A staff member in a bright vest was there, with the mascot rabbit following behind.

The costume was so cumbersome that she had to use both furry paws to hold up its ears as she hurried toward him in small steps.

"Our Rourou Rabbit would like to invite you to join tonight's parade!"

The popular mascot named Rourou Rabbit stood beside her, covering her face and acting shy.

Its smile was fixed in place, stitched on with thread, yet Zhou Yige somehow read another expression on its face.

Beneath the blazing sun, every move she made was full of effort.

So he thought: I'll live one more night.

/

It was a long time before He Du learned that Zhou Yige ran a bar.

It had a simple industrial decor, its walls covered with posters of the band White Dove.

Her gaze swept around, and He Du spotted a familiar album cover.

"Zhou Yige, would you sing 'Faraway Travels' for me once?"

Zhou Yige didn't answer.

After White Dove's drummer died by suicide for love, he had never sung that song again.

He Du looked at the beauty mark at the corner of his eye and smiled openly. "Actually, the first time I heard this song, I was standing on the roof of a twenty-six-story building. Back then, I decided that no matter what, I would keep living."

Down-and-out heiress x band frontman

Theme: World peace