A Summer's Heart-Pounding Romance

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Original title: Knowing Spring's Mood, Yearning in Full Bloom

--Next up--

"The D in Little Brother's D Is for Daddy"

[Older woman/younger man romance / 7-year age gap / possessive, obsessive power player VS deceived little bunny]

--Story Blurb--

[Long-planned pursuit / 3-year age gap / push-and-pull romance / devoted one-on-one relationship]

[One openly in love, one secretly in love, yet they have to pretend they barely know each other in public]

Possessive, scheming, obsessive man × innocent little ray of sunshine who doesn't realize she's flirting

Young master of the capital's elite × popular cosplayer

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Zhou Zhiyu was aloof and chaste. An accidental moment when he got soaked and took off his shirt revealed his broad shoulders, narrow waist, and V-shaped torso, hidden beneath his clothes. The girls who couldn't get enough of him made him the most popular topic on the school's confession wall.

What no one knew was that the only person Zhou Zhiyu wanted to seduce was Chun Yiran.

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As an ordinary college student, Chun Yiran only ever ran into Zhou Zhiyu when he filled in for a professor.

One day, without thinking, she reached out and touched the neck of the man sitting beside her, an acquaintance of hers.

Chun Yiran jerked her head up, her gaze landing first on the lectern.

The dismissal bell rang. Pressing her lips together, she rose and brushed past the man seated at the very front as the crowd left. Two messages that had just popped up on her phone came back to her mind.

[Baby, your neck is so beautiful.]

[Let me get a good look at it from behind tonight.]

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The hugely popular cosplayer Yinquan had a fan who'd been with her from the days when she was unremarkable to the moment she became the center of attention.

Everyone knew this fan, called "A Dad," was an incredibly devoted fan, but no one knew that Yinquan had never replied to any of his private messages.

By chance, an anime convention organizer invited Yinquan to a signing event for a handsome fee.

As soon as ticket sales opened, every ticket sold out in under three seconds.

Fans lamented that they hadn't gotten tickets, but A Dad posted a screenshot of his order with the caption:

[I got them all.]

Everyone was stunned: Was this the proper way to use "I got them all"?!

Even Yinquan herself was shocked.

With no other choice, she opened the private messages from A Dad that she'd left untouched for ages. Ignoring the 99+ successive messages full of "crazy ramblings," one newly arrived photo made her shudder.

She knew the scene in the picture all too well. The man's ragged breathing still seemed to echo in her ears.

Another message from him popped up:

[You're being naughty, baby.]

[You'd better stay hidden.]

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By chance, Chun Yiran found the sketchbook of the boy next door. Though it was the height of summer, all the boy's sketches showed withered branches and fallen leaves. She plucked a little flower by the river and tucked it into a blank page of the sketchbook, turning it into a specimen.

What she didn't expect was that the flower-stained paper would become the first splash of color in Zhou Zhiyu's black-and-white world, and the first stirrings of a young boy's heart in the height of summer.

Reading note:

All couples in this story are male-female. The Su brothers' storyline is about healing through family bonds!

Theme: Don't let tradition define you. Everyone has the right to make their own choices in life.