What Do I Do If My Crush Is a Gloomy Guy?

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A sunny heroine who takes on the whole world x a seemingly refined but actually scheming, obsessive, and gloomy hero

Mutual redemption | Rekindled love | Marriage before love | The powerful one bows down for love

1. Song Zhili is a stylish city woman who has been single for years since graduating from college. What she fears most is being pressured to marry when she goes home for the New Year.

She once boldly declared that she would never marry in this lifetime.

But in the end, she gave in.

Not by marrying someone, but by entering a marriage of convenience!

Before meeting her marriage-of-convenience partner, Song Zhili had rehearsed a whole speech.

For example:

"We don't need to get a marriage license or live together. We just need to deal with each other's parents when necessary."

"We won't fall in love, but if you need it, I can pay you."

But when her prospective partner sat down across from her, Song Zhili froze.

It was Lu Zhixing, her secret crush from high school!

Lu Zhixing smiled warmly at Song Zhili. "Shall we get married?"

2. From Song Zhili's point of view, Lu Zhixing was someone she could admire but never reach.

He came from a good family, was good-looking, and did well in school. His personality was just a little strange.

Song Zhili remembered the first time she met Lu Zhixing in high school. It was on the top floor of the school.

The top floor was abandoned, with old desks stacked up there. No one else ever went there, so it was her secret hideaway.

They looked into each other's eyes, and she was the first to greet him.

"Hi, I'm Song Zhili."

After that, she kept running into Lu Zhixing on the top floor.

He rarely spoke to her, but would sometimes bring her little snacks.

One evening, with the sunset glowing beautifully, Lu Zhixing spoke first.

"My name is Lu Zhixing. Song Zhili, thank you."

Song Zhili didn't know why Lu Zhixing was thanking her, and she didn't ask. She simply smiled at him again.

Later, Lu Zhixing disappeared, the day before Song Zhili planned to confess her feelings.

3. After they married, Song Zhili happened to discover that Lu Zhixing wasn't as free of desires as she'd imagined.

Again and again, she heard others talk about his obsession and his "abnormality."

Even he called himself a monster.

But every time, Song Zhili told him, "It's not your fault."

Until one day, in Lu Zhixing's house abroad, she saw that he had printed screenshots of her social media posts and covered the entire room with them.

"I've found you."

Warm breath suddenly brushed the back of her neck, and Song Zhili froze all over.

Lu Zhixing's arms wrapped around her from behind. His long fingers gently covered her trembling hand, guiding it to touch the pictures on the wall.

"Lili, should we call the police...?"

They had each secretly kept their love hidden for years.

But the moment they met again, that love overflowed.

"Song Zhili, tonight the moon is a crescent, but with you by my side, my heart is full."

* Mutual secret crushes, a sunny girl who takes on the whole world and a scheming, gloomy male ghost

* A sweet story with a touch of bitterness, marriage before love

Coming soon: The Great Escape. Blurb below. Find more upcoming stories in my collection.

[Redemption | Mutual devotion | The one who got away and the one who left a lasting mark]

A frail, gentle young lady x a carefree young master who loves freedom

"Freedom and love, bright and magnificent."

Shi Yun had been sickly since birth, and her family doted on her, afraid anything might happen to her.

She spent her twenty-third birthday in the hospital.

That was also the day she first met Chi Ye.

Chi Ye was as wild and unruly as his name suggested.

As Shi Yun passed by him, she learned he had ended up in the hospital after a fight.

The second time she met Chi Ye was in her family's back garden.

She had become Chi Ye's new neighbor, and he became the first friend she had made in over twenty years.

Chi Ye was always making his parents angry and often stayed away from home.

Shi Yun would always wait for him to show up in the back garden.

"Shi Yun, do you want to go out and see the world?"

"Can I go out?"

"Of course!"

On a sunny, breezy afternoon, Shi Yun took Chi Ye's hand and climbed over that high wall for the first time.

Later, everyone said the young master of the Chi family had led the young lady of the Shi family astray.

But only Shi Yun knew that it was the grand escape she'd imagined countless times.

"I just want to be brave and be myself once in the limited life I have."

Chi Ye said, "If I could, I'd wander the world."

So Shi Yun said, "Chi Ye, I'll wander the world with you."

And so they waited for sunrise beneath a sacred snow-capped mountain.

The sunlight bathed the mountain, turning its peak golden. Shi Yun reverently kissed the one she loved.

"Chi Ye, I'll leave all the love of my life to you."

"Shi Yun, freedom and love are bright and magnificent, and so are we."

Theme: The world is vast, but we will meet again