Yuzu: Old Version

*[After finishing the heroine's POV for "The Pomelos Are Ripe," I'll finish this old version!]

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"A love story between a clueless girl and a boy who's always in a bad mood"

Li Shuzhi, her childhood friend who grew up with her, accidentally overhears a conversation between Zhu Xingyou and her friend one day.

For all the years that follow, he is forced to hide his unrequited love. He can only watch her fall for someone else again and again, watching her smile for others and cry over them...

All he can do is quietly stay by her side, year after year.

Every time Zhu Xingyou cries and grieves over someone else, Li Shuzhi screams in his heart: "Zhu Xingyou, can't you just turn around and look at me once?"

Eventually, he can't take it anymore and decides to study abroad.

But the day before he leaves, he has a huge fight with Zhu Xingyou.

To be precise, she berates him while he hardly gets a word in.

That night, he says many things he doesn't mean.

After Zhu Xingyou leaves, Li Shuzhi stands in the rain, watching the girl's carefree figure grow smaller and smaller in the distance.

During his years abroad, whenever he thinks of Zhu Xingyou, a pang of bitterness rises in his heart.

He knows that pomelo-scented perfume is her favorite, and he knows which brand she loves most. He often buys it to secretly keep for himself, and sometimes sends her some anonymously.

At the beginning of 2028, with the new year just underway,

Li Shuzhi returns to China. When he reunites with her and hears their elders urging them to marry, he knows his chance has come.

From then on, he acts for her in public and pulls her close in private.

In this grand game of flirtation, Zhu Xingyou is the first to admit defeat.

But she doesn't know that Li Shuzhi had already lost before the game even began.

He lost to her, the one who had no idea.

"In love, whoever falls first is the loser."

·A calculating, slightly scheming elite lawyer × a clueless but flirtatious webcomic artist

[An emotionally perceptive lover × a conflicted personality]

*Childhood friends, bittersweet romance, a push and pull of unspoken feelings

*The male lead's years of unrequited love finally pay off

◎Note! The earlier chapters are told from the male lead's perspective, focusing on his bittersweet unrequited love. The later chapters, featuring their flirtation game, begin from the heroine's perspective~

·Happy ending/

Theme: In love, whoever falls first is the loser