My Aloof Childhood Friend Has Secretly Loved Me for Years

About three updates a week~

School life in the beginning, then urban life, with a touch of the entertainment industry

Also known as "The Years My Cool Childhood Friend Had a Crush on Me"

"Didn't You Say You Were an Iceberg? How'd You Melt?"

"Help! How Do I Confess to My Childhood Friend, Who Has a Crush on Me?"

"Play Liang Jingru's 'Courage' for My Wife"

Reserved, elegant cat bottom VS sunny, carefree puppy top

Chen Wannong has loved Si Binghe for a very, very long time

You don't realize you've been the one everyone is gossiping about until the gossip reveals you've been secretly loved for three whole years

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During the summer break of her sophomore year of high school, Si Binghe met Chen Wannong.

Si Binghe had never seen anyone so beautiful, so delicate she looked like a porcelain doll.

Her mother told her that Chen Wannong would be staying with them for a while.

To Si Binghe, that time was like a plump, juicy tomato.

Take a big bite, and it's sweet.

But the aftertaste is rather sour.

All in all, falling in love with Chen Wannong was only natural. First loves usually come to nothing, and that's nothing unusual.

Three years later, in the Xiang Normal University library, Si Binghe was cramming for the CET-6 while scrolling through the campus gossip wall when a lost-and-found post jolted her awake

Someone had found a phone. Tucked inside its case was a photo: Si Binghe in her school uniform three years ago, grinning like an idiot.

Si Binghe: ? Is digging up the past how people do secret crushes these days?

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"Why were you hiding my photo?" Si Binghe demanded, gripping the phone case.

Chen Wannong lowered her eyes. "I took the wrong picture."

"Liar." Si Binghe grabbed her wrist.

Under the scorching sun during their sophomore-year summer break, Chen Wannong held up her phone to take a picture of Si Binghe for a school assignment about their vacation.

The camera shifted slightly, and her shadow quietly fell against the hem of Si Binghe's clothes.

That was the only distance she dared to get close.

Years later, Si Binghe held Chen Wannong close as they looked back on that day. Remembering Chen Wannong's stubborn denial, she couldn't help remarking, "That phone was lost at just the right time."

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In the damp, misty Jiangnan rain, Chen Wannong met Si Binghe for the first time.

Love rippled across the water as Chen Wannong struggled against it even while giving in.

Click!

Chen Wannong raised her phone and took a picture of Si Binghe for the school assignment about their vacation.

With the sunlight at her back, she carefully adjusted the angle, bringing her shadow right up against Si Binghe's.

It was the only photo of the two of them from their youth.

In the long years that followed, this photograph held all the words Chen Wannong never said.

Chen Wannong loved Si Binghe, and had for a very, very long time.

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* A romance-focused story~

* My initial plan is for this to be like tomatoes with sugar: sweet at first, then tart, then sweet, sweet, sweet, with a sweet-and-sour flavor. A little sweet romance.

* I'm a new writer and not good at writing blurbs~ Please be kind!

Coming soon: "Fishy, Big Sis Took Me Home"

Genius, cool-headed but warm-hearted demon hunter VS sweet, kind, and sunny airhead

This is a story about a honeycomb briquette and a solid brick.

Wei Songyue and Wei Sixi have a grand total of eight brain cells between them.

Wei Songyue has 801, while Wei Sixi has negative one.

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Three years ago, demon hunters launched a campaign of "purification" and marched north to slaughter the demon clans. The demons suffered heavy losses and retreated north, while the hunters drove most of them to Changsheng Valley, at the northernmost edge of the continent. With the people now safe from demon attacks, the demon hunters' reputation soared.

But some demons refused to retreat north. The merfolk, for instance, stayed in the Moon Sea, their home for generations, and fought the hunters to the bitter end. In the end, they were wiped out.

As a demon hunter who captured every demon she encountered, Wei Songyue naturally took part in the purification campaign. But when she went to remove the inner core from an unawakened mermaid, the little fish suddenly transformed and sweetly called her "Big Sis."

Wei Songyue: ...

Wei Songyue had a younger sister who had died. She used to call her that, too.

Whether she was simply being softhearted or had lost her mind, Wei Songyue took in a little tail. Her little tail followed her on her demon hunts and was always calling her "Big Sis."

Wei Songyue had never let anyone get the better of her with words, but somehow this airheaded little tail she'd taken in had her completely beaten. She was stumped, again and again.

Whenever Wei Songyue was about to lose her temper, her little tail would say:

"My Big Sis is the best demon hunter in the world!"

Wei Songyue was completely at this fish's mercy.

She raised her as if she were her little sister, never noticing when those feelings began to change.

Love comes from nowhere, yet sinks deep and fast.

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Fishy me, I got picked up by a softhearted big sis this winter!

Ever since Wei Sixi became conscious, she had known that Wei Songyue was her big sister. She couldn't remember her parents or friends, or even who she was, but somehow she remembered Wei Songyue.

She had suffered from a strange illness since childhood. When it flared up, it felt like walking on blades, and her legs hurt terribly.

Big Sis said she'd been born with the illness, and that it could be cured. So she took Wei Sixi roaming the world, hunting demons while searching for medicine.

But what they sought wasn't some magical pill. It was the Shennong Cauldron. Big Sis said that once they found it, she could be cured.

She followed Big Sis around, handing her talismans when she hunted demons and backing her up when she insulted people. Along the way, she saw all kinds of strange and wonderful things. The more she saw, the more she realized that evil wasn't in demons. It was in people's hearts.

She obediently drank the bitter medicine every day, looking forward to the day she would be cured. Then one day, a demon told her that the Shennong Cauldron couldn't cure illnesses at all. It could only refine demons...

Wei Sixi secretly poured out the medicine Big Sis gave her every day. A tail grew where her legs had been...

She was a fish!

The demon hunters had killed her family. They had flayed her parents and siblings alive and extracted their cores.

Her Big Sis... had once had a younger sister named Wei Xi.

Her Big Sis's sister, who died young, was named Wei Xi, and she was named Wei Sixi... Wei Sixi couldn't understand: when she and Big Sis had watched all those sunsets together, who had Big Sis thought she was watching them with?

Her Big Sis pointed a sword at her. "Demon hunters must exterminate every demon they encounter."

"Demons deserve to die."

As enormous waves surged across the sea, Wei Sixi demanded, "Then why did you spare me? Why did you keep me by your side and search for medicine to cure me?"

"Wei Songyue, did you really never fall for me?"

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[Reading Guide]

* A story about a big sister becoming a wife, with a pseudo-incest relationship

* Half plot, half romance, with episodic demon hunts.

* There will probably be a groveling arc later, but it has a happy ending.

Theme: A love story where a secret crush comes true