Rusty Summer: Treatment Notes

I'm preparing for an important exam and will return next year.

Mutual healing, small-town fiction

Doctor x jewelry designer

Flirtatious, pretend-innocent bunny x brazen, lovestruck fox

1.

Sen Ning had thought about giving up. Maybe life was just like this, and she should accept her fate.

But she couldn't bear it. Why should her life be left to rot?

2.

The new woman looked like a fox, sexy and alluring, and she was generous with her money. Too bad she'd come to this little town.

People here all had something to say. They agreed she couldn't be up to anything good.

Sen Ning thought, at worst, she'd make a deal with the devil. She needed money.

3.

Lu Xiwu wasn't a tiger that would eat people, but a deer who had seen the world and remained pure and kind.

The forest was full of thorns. When Sen Ning was covered in wounds, the little deer licked them clean and led her to a sunlit plain, where an open road lay ahead.

But her delusions grew, and she dreamed of possessing that deer.

Reader's guide:

- Nine-year age gap. They are 20 and 29 when they meet.

- Sen Ning started school two years late and is in her final year of high school when she meets Lu Xiwu.

- Imperfect characters, switch, happy ending

Coming soon: This Journey to the Green Hills

Photographer x painter

Mutual healing, happy ending, bittersweet pursuit of love

For seven years, Jiang Yubai carried an extra twenty jin of weight and traveled all over the country. She was always either taking photographs or getting ready to take them, yet she never published a single photo.

Her friends teased her, saying she was like Sha Wujing on his pilgrimage, only ever carrying the luggage and walking. She would just smile good-naturedly and never argue.

In the early spring of the eighth year, in a misty, rainy town in Jiangnan, she finally found her muse.

The little sun wasn't afraid of the iceberg. Step by step, she drew closer, and the glacier melted into water. Spring returned, and flowers bloomed.

Her deliberate approach bore sweet fruit, and she took the most satisfying photograph of her life.

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At the Zhuguang Awards, held once every ten years, Jiang Yubai won the trophy representing the highest honor in photography with her photograph Green Mountains. She broke through the competition and became famous overnight.

Sadly, her muse turned away, and the spring waters no longer lingered for her.

Theme: Everything in the past is a prologue. Don't give up. Tomorrow, life will be even brighter and more beautiful.