"Swallow something, and you can get it."
In front of the shrine, Hu Wan skeptically swallowed a black Go-stone cookie and chewed.
"If you eat Go?" she tried saying.
When she opened her eyes, she heard a rustle beside her.
It was Tianyin Changyou, pressing his palms together and swallowing the white Go-stone cookie in his hand.
Hu Wan gazed coolly at this beauty, as lovely as the first cherry blossom, and was secretly annoyed.
Winning the championship wasn't enough for him. Now he even had to take her prayer away from her.
She got up to leave.
But the wide sleeve of the other person's kimono slipped lightly down, the fabric gathering at his elbow. His beauty suddenly seemed fragile.
Then Hu Wan saw the old scars crisscrossing his arm, and he quickly covered them.
That was the first time she vaguely realized
Just as she was jealous, Tianyin Changyou was probably jealous of her, too.
*
/The City of Jealousy is a city that traps geniuses.
She and Tianyin Changyou were both trapped there.
They stood silently in every shadow, coldly and hopelessly staring at each other's talents. They were so jealous.
*
The second time Hu Wan saw those scars was beside a lake in spring.
Tianyin Changyou rolled up his sleeves and scooped up a handful of lake water.
He silently made a wish, closed his eyes, and swallowed the water.
When he opened them, he was looking into Hu Wan's eyes.
She grabbed his hand, still dripping with water. His fingertips trembled.
"I heard you," she said, coolly calling him out.
Her nemesis's eyes should have been filled with jealousy, but in the end, it was tears that broke through first.
*
/Is jealousy not also a kind of love, a heart that refuses to bow its head?
In every moment when they could have grown closer, they tacitly chose the wrong path each time.
They knew perfectly well they wanted to get closer, yet pretended not to hear and drew away.
*
"Swallow something, and you can get it."
"If you eat..."
Hu Wan propped up her chin and gazed from afar at the foreign player invited to compete. Her stare drew his eyes to her. He signaled for her to be serious, but then his pupils contracted
A cherry blossom rested between her lips as she took her time holding it there.
Then she bit it cleanly in half.
The beauty's fingers immediately clutched the edge of the table.
"If you eat a cherry blossom."
/GL romance | Win first place, win first place.
Rivals-to-first-love pairing | Jealousy as love, leaving extreme bite marks on each other.
A spiral of sliced-up dreamcore × a taste like cherry blossoms
The draft is finished and being polished. The main story is only about 100,000 words, so it's very short.
[The blurb has been screenshotted. Copy it and I'll come after you.]
Theme: Jealousy is love, but hatred is hard to erase.
