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[An earnest, straightforward shou with no love threads & a fake-gentle, genuinely scheming gong]
Sui Qing had had an easy life for nearly twenty years. The thing his friends teased him about most was that he had no love threads.
Sui Qing didn't think that was a problem, but what was this holiday homework about "falling in love"?
After sitting in front of a blank canvas for three days, Sui Qing had an epiphany: he couldn't make himself fall in love, but there was a shortcut.
What he failed to realize was that taking shortcuts could lead an honest person into serious trouble. He stumbled into two problems at once.
First, he finally understood what falling in love meant, but the person he fell for was a man.
Second, never mind that the person was a man. He also seemed to be running a scam specifically designed to trap him.
Sui Qing refused to believe it. A perfectly timed coincidence had to be fate.
Only later did he discover that it was a scheme, but also a match made in heaven.
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Zhou Fang had always been the child other people's parents wished they had. Every label marking him as excellent seemed only natural.
Only he knew that beneath his dazzling exterior lay a dark, self-effacing unrequited love.
That person's gaze had moved on too quickly, leaving him alone where he stood.
But when that gaze settled on him again, Zhou Fang knew his chance had come.
Zhou Fang thought his plan was flawless, never realizing that with every uncontrollable flutter of his heart, his secret was being discovered.
The language of the sunflower is: "I see no one but you. Everywhere I look, there you are. When you're with me, you're the sun, and I can't look away. When you're gone, I lower my head and see no one."
On an ordinary day, Zhou Fang met his sun again.
Theme: The drive to keep striving and grow.
