Why Won't You Say You Love Me?

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Doctor and Patient: Younger Top / Mutual Healing / A Touch of Mystery (Complete)

The Seventeenth Year of the Tide's Silence: Secret Love Comes True / The Untouchable One Falls / Flirtatious Top (Coming Soon)

[Synopsis]

What does it really mean to let go?

Jiang Yu often thought that the memories she couldn't erase and the feelings she couldn't forget might as well be left to time. Time would heal every wound.

But the moment she saw Chen Chuxi for the first time in ten years, memories of the past came crashing back. She had thought she was over it, yet she still lost her composure.

“I want to win her back,” Jiang Yu said with a bitter smile over her drink. “But I feel like she’s already moved on.”

Maybe Chen Chuxi really had moved on. She could talk to Jiang Yu calmly about everything that had happened over the past ten years, and even tell her about the girlfriend she had now.

Jiang Yu felt like she was going crazy. She had imagined countless ways their reunion might end in a bitter falling-out. Even never speaking again would be better than this mild, indifferent distance.

That day, Jiang Yu's stomach was in knots, but she still got drunk. Just as Chen Chuxi was about to leave, Jiang Yu caught the hem of her clothes.

She pleaded, “Chen Chuxi, please, don’t go.”

Chen Chuxi knew that, in an instant, the carefully maintained facade of indifference she had worked so hard to keep up for so long had finally collapsed.

“Jiang Yu,” Chen Chuxi said hoarsely, lifting her face all the same. “Is it fun to play me?”

Jiang Yu suddenly remembered that afternoon in high school. Chen Chuxi had held her face just like this, tears glimmering in her eyes as she asked:

“Why won’t you say you love me?”

Jiang Yu suddenly felt so sad again. It was as if every psychological defense she had painstakingly built up had crumbled in an instant. Nearly breaking down, she threw herself at Chen Chuxi.

“I wasn’t playing you.”

Chen Chuxi froze.

“I love you.”

A carefree and cheerful-seeming bottom who is actually sensitive, gloomy, and possessive x a quiet, slow-tempered, and kind-seeming top who is actually insecure, decisive, and universally adored

[Content Warnings and Reader's Guide]

1. Warning: There are extensive school-day flashbacks! Male characters are minor extras.

2. Realistic setting. Neither lead is perfect, but both make mistakes as they grow, as people inevitably do.

3. Second chance romance / The one who dumped her has to win her back / Coming-of-age

4. A sweet top! A sweet top! A sweet top!!! Important things must be said three times!

5. Daily updates

[Coming Soon] The Seventeenth Year of the Tide's Silence

This year marks the seventeenth year Li Shuang has secretly loved Jiang Jing.

At a business meeting, she sat expressionlessly across from the other woman, feigning composure as she listened to deal after deal being discussed.

“Ms. Li, this is Ms. Jiang, our partner for this project.”

Li Shuang's gaze passed over Jiang Jing's face. She nodded without expression.

“Li Shuang.”

The instant their hands touched, Li Shuang's palm burned as if it were on fire.

But no one could tell that beneath her beautiful exterior, her heart was already raging like a storm.

She didn't let her gaze linger on Jiang Jing for long.

Aside from the habit she'd cultivated over so many years, she realized she still had a moment when she could barely control herself.

She was still letting herself hope.

She thought she had moved on, after all these years.

“Hey, I don't think Ms. Li and I have exchanged contact information yet. Why don't we add each other on WeChat?”

Li Shuang raised her eyes. Her lashes trembled slightly, and her gaze was as calm as an autumn pond as she studied Jiang Jing, seeming to have something to say but holding it back.

After scanning each other's codes, they both fell into a long silence.

“I've accepted your friend request. We can start chatting now.”

But the timestamp was from nine years ago.

In truth, even nine years before that, they had already shared eight years that no one knew about.

By now, Li Shuang had known Jiang Jing for seventeen years.

She thought she'd grown used to being ignored, like a mute tide: roaring beneath the surface, yet still utterly silent.

“Li Shuang, open the door.”

But in the seventeenth year of the tide's silence, Jiang Jing looked back and discovered the stowaway in that deserted stretch of sea.

Li Shuang leaned against the door and lowered her head. “Go away.”

The sea of longing that had always remained hidden in the shadows was finally laid bare for the world to see. It was passionate and surging, impossible to avoid and impossible to conceal.

On the other side, Jiang Jing felt like she was going crazy.

“Li Shuang, you've been chasing me for all these years. You can't just decide you don't want me anymore.”

An avoidant, insecure bottom with a wolf cut x a radiant, scheming, flirtatious beauty of a top

Theme: My love for you has never been just words.