Mutual Secret Crush | School Life | Bittersweet
Irreverent x Sensitive and Reserved
“Life is always full of regrets,
all of them swallowed by the torrent called youth.”
Love, poverty, and coughing are three things that cannot be hidden, and Jiang Zhiyi had the first two.
But what she did best was hide her feelings for an entire youth, without anyone ever knowing.
When she was young, she fell for the top student on the school leaderboard. No matter how the rankings below changed, that familiar name always held firmly to first place.
A girl at the bottom of her class and the favored son of heaven standing high above the clouds: they were worlds apart. Jiang Zhiyi quietly buried her unspoken love deep in her heart.
-
As spring turned to autumn, she would always stand in the corridor, gazing across at Shen Guizhou in silence.
“Zhiyi, do you like Shen Guizhou?” her friend asked, having sensed something.
Jiang Zhiyi hurriedly looked away, her tone calm. “I don’t. I never have.”
She couldn’t hide her poverty, but she told lies with effortless ease.
Like an unrivaled master, she was impossible to see through. So she fooled her friend, herself, and him.
-
Years later, as Jiang Zhiyi prepared to set off on a new journey, a green letter unexpectedly slipped out while she was sorting through her books.
That night, she opened the envelope. It contained only a few brief lines, but the familiar, bold handwriting stung her eyes.
[Jiang Zhiyi, loving you is my greatest secret]
Signed, Shen Guizhou.
The date, however, was eight years ago.
It turned out that in that broken-down youth, the boy she had once looked up to had loved her too.
A short story of around 80,000 to 100,000 words, free to read during serialization
Bad ending
2025.09.05
Theme: Mutual secret crushes
