A Winter Holiday on the Qiqier Sea

[Mixed-race hero | Travel story | Healing | Romantic encounter | Literary]

[On a winter holiday by the Qiqier Sea, she fell in love with someone.]

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After her first failed suicide attempt, Chen Laidi set off on her first journey away from home.

She traveled in the depths of winter to the Qiqier Sea, a northern seaside city.

There, she fulfilled a long-held dream: seeing the ocean, the snow, and the sights of a foreign land.

There, she met a young man who made her heart flutter. It was the first time the twenty-seven-year-old had ever fallen for someone.

Together, they watched the sun rise and set, fed white pigeons, took photos, drove along the coastal highway, ate French dinners, joined a treasure hunt, and danced at a Christmas Eve ball...

He gave her the courage to try all the interesting things in the world...

Later, when her emotions fell apart and she stood on a snowy balcony, trying to throw herself off, he was there by her side. With flowers, snowmen, games, and his embrace, he helped her through her emotional crisis, encouraged her to try starting over, and set off fireworks just for her.

They spent seven days alone together in the snowy forest. For the first time, she opened her heart and revealed every last grievance and hurt she had been holding inside.

He was the one who gave her the real courage to try starting over.

When the trip ended, Chen Laidi gathered her courage and took the first step toward a new life.

"Only when you have the courage to love yourself can you find the courage to love someone else."

May everyone have the courage to be their true selves and love themselves as they are.

Remember, you are wonderful. Truly, wonderfully wonderful.

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Chen Laidi (Chen Xin) VS Zhang Mingxu

Character profiles: A heroine who seems gentle and easygoing but is troubled by depression and wants to find a new life VS a warm, cheerful, emotionally perceptive hero of Chinese and German descent

Note:

1. The heroine changes her name later in the story.

2. When they meet, the heroine is 27 and the hero is 24. They are three years apart, and both are sexually inexperienced. They're very innocent adults~

3. A slow-paced, cozy, down-to-earth healing story. I hope you'll enjoy it~

4. A Winter Holiday by the Qiqier Sea was published and began serialization on Jinjiang on October 29, 2024, and finished serialization on November 24, 2024. The novel was fully revised starting January 9, 2025. The revisions mainly addressed formatting and typos; the story itself was unchanged. This notice is simply a record of the revisions.

5. [If you like cozy, down-to-earth healing stories, you might like this one too~ And if you really do like it, that would make me so happy~]

Theme: Courage means taking the first step