She Said

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★ Unruly girl vs. rebellious boy

★ Rekindled romance | Bittersweet youth

Mengze No. 1 High School has two kinds of people: those struggling to survive in the mud, and those getting drunk on money.

Yu Sui naturally belongs to the former.

After working so hard to get into Mengze, all she wants is to study hard and leave this tiresome city.

But someone refuses to let her have her way. His name is Duan Yu.

He’s a famous rich kid around these parts, the school bully at Mengze, and a real piece of work.

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In their senior year, Duan Yu’s father forces him to go to school.

Having always lived a reckless life, Duan Yu is treated like a Buddha, and Yu Sui, his deskmate, is naturally the one expected to serve him.

From then on, Yu Sui has twice as much homework and class notes as usual, and Duan Yu still goes out of his way to make things difficult for her.

He says, “Yu Sui, I want to hear your voice.”

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Later, Yu Sui escapes from the city that held her captive, but she can’t escape a world without Duan Yu.

Duan Yu holds her tightly against him, making her look him in the eyes.

He says, “Yu Sui, I can hear it. Your eyes are saying you love me.”

-Reader’s guide

1. The characters aren’t perfect.

*The heroine is genuinely mute, and won’t regain her voice later.

2. Blurb archived on 2024.12.14

Coming soon: Bound to Her

Rebellious playboy vs. well-behaved girl who follows the rules

Yun Chu had a quiet crush on Jiang Ci throughout all three years of high school.

Back then, Jiang Ci was one of the most popular students on campus, while she was an unnoticed nobody in class.

But she had her bold moments, like writing a line in Jiang Ci’s yearbook: “May my boy always be sincere and passionate.”

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They met again at a blind date.

He was the guest, and she was just watching.

With his bold golden hair, the young man across from her curled his lip. “You’re too much. I hate trouble.”

He was still just as carefree and unrestrained as before.

He didn’t recognize her.

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Later, the two of them signed a lovers’ contract.

It wasn’t until Jiang Ci’s unrequited love returned from abroad that their secret arrangement was forced to end.

At a class reunion, someone teased him irreverently. “Ci, when was your first time?”

Jiang Ci smiled. “May 21, 2021.”

Yun Chu’s ears suddenly turned red.

The person continued, “And when did you first fall in love?”

Jiang Ci answered lazily, “October 1, 2017.”

She looked up in a daze, and their eyes met in the dim private room.

“An unspoken crush is a book sealed away in the sea of time. After all these years, at last, someone has opened to its first page.”

“In this grand, sweeping secret crush, it turns out she was never alone.”

-Reader’s guide

1. Mutual pining / reunited after years apart / adult romance

2. Blurb archived on 2024.11.14

3. Both leads are each other’s first and only

Theme: The people we love won’t pass us by