Romantic Memoirs

[A clingy, boldly forward sweetheart vs. her stubborn ex who played dad, big brother, and puppy]

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Blurb:

Six months after their breakup.

A friend asked them, "In your ten-year long-distance relationship, who loved the other more?"

Xia Yi rested her chin in her hand and thought it over. Ten years ago, she was the one who fell in love at first sight. After secretly liking him in the dark for so long, she finally worked up the courage to tell him, "I like you."

She was also the one who made the long journeys back and forth across a twelve-hour time difference and ten thousand kilometers, thinking of him over and over again in the sleepless nights of bustling Manhattan, crying as she asked, "Can you come over and keep me company right now?"

They should have broken up as soon as she went abroad, but she was the one who kept falling deeper into the relationship, unilaterally tying together two ambitious people running in opposite directions.

She figured she'd wasted ten years of her youth on a dog.

Jin Ling just smiled.

Ten years ago, their lives had nothing to do with each other. She was in high school while he was already in college. Xia Yi was like a carefully laid net that suddenly ensnared him, an innocent bystander, before she hurried overseas. But his affection for her was like the grains of sand in a sand bottle, piling higher and higher as time went by.

He was the one who stayed up all night to video chat and talk with her, trying to keep in sync. People advised him not to get so attached to "a girl who could fall for someone new every week," but he gave her his whole, unguarded young heart.

But she always underestimated how much he loved her. She was spoiled, proud, and forgetful, and even managed to forget him. He stayed by her side as she grew up, only to be dumped without warning. Somehow, her ex had planted the tree, and her next boyfriend got to enjoy the shade.

In perfect unison, they wrote their answers on slips of paper:

"The answer is obvious."

"I love him more."

"I love her more."

"I always have."

As for their friends, watching them bicker and pull at each other, they summed it up in one sentence:

They couldn't hate each other enough to be enemies, but getting back together would cost them their pride. The young lady and young master couldn't be sugar daddy and lover, either, so these two proud people had to act like strangers in public and kiss like mad in private.

Two hopeless romantics rekindle their love after a breakup.

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Reading guide: both leads are sexually inexperienced / one-on-one / happy ending

Two-year age gap / Interspersed memories of their school days / rekindled romance

Note: Sections marked "(Memories)" take place during their school days or move the timeline back.

[Schools, locations, and companies are fictional. Please don't associate them with real life. Thanks, love you!]

Theme: Love is wonderful