The Seagull Never Lands

Chu Shuangqi had been working for Ying Ling for two years.

At work, she was his most capable assistant.

In private, she was the girlfriend he couldn't acknowledge publicly.

A movie she'd watched once had moved her deeply, so she copied the heroine and began keeping track of all the things Ying Ling did that hurt her. She planned to leave him once she'd recorded seventy-seven of them.

In the end, the diary never reached seventy-seven entries. Chu Shuangqi simply tossed it into the trash.

Her childish girlish feelings went with it. No one would care about an ordinary gray diary.

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Ying Ling thought his relationship with Chu Shuangqi was a consensual arrangement between adults.

That was until Chu Shuangqi handed him her resignation and efficiently packed up before leaving the city.

Only then did Ying Ling understand: she wasn't the one who'd been laboring under a one-sided attachment. It was him, the one who suddenly found the city unbearably dull.

"Little Scene"

After his friend called him a scumbag, Ying Ling looked confused.

“I admit I really like her, but I don't think I like her enough to give up my principles for her.”

At that, his friend immediately grew bashful. “That's fair, I guess. After all, Assistant Chu seems to be getting engaged...”

As soon as Ying Ling heard that, he bolted out the door. His friend called after him, “Where are you going?”

“The airport!”

Ying Ling's voice was edged with gritted teeth. He had no idea his friend was chuckling behind his back.

Got you now, didn't I?

Theme: Love yourself first