Crush-lit | Urban fairy tale | Short, sweet fluff
Over the New Year holiday, Ruan Yi was scrolling through Instagram when she came across a total dreamboat who was exactly her type: handsome face, great body, good-looking and quiet.
Best of all, he replied to her DMs often. He was concise, never cheesy or pretentious, and didn't mind if their chats occasionally ran long.
Ruan Yi strongly suspected he was a bot.
When the spring semester began, Ruan Yi set aside her internship chores and went with her roommates to Jiangcheng for a debate competition. They ran into a massive traffic jam, so they took the subway instead.
A crowd of students boarded at Jiangcheng University station. A guy in a black cap and white T-shirt, earbuds in, stood just a shoulder's breadth away from her.
As the carriage swayed, the red cord around Lang Xi's wrist brushed against hers, sending a faint warmth through her.
The carriage was packed, and Ruan Yi was so squeezed she felt dizzy.
She opened her dreamboat's DMs. Before she could type anything, she accidentally tapped a sticker and sent it.
A soft buzz.
The black-cap, white-T-shirt guy's phone chimed. He looked down, his fingers shifting.
The next second, Ruan Yi's phone lit up with a string of notifications, each one following the last.
"I'm here."
[Bonus Scene]
Ruan Yi had no personal photos on Instagram, and her posts were mostly everyday stuff.
So she treated Lin Jin's DMs like a confessional, a ledger, and a diary for venting...
Considering they were on opposite sides in the debate competition, there was no way he could know.
After the competition, the two teams arranged to get dinner. Lin Jin had something to take care of and would arrive late, so he asked Ruan Yi to send him lots of photos.
Ruan Yi agreed. During the second half of the gathering, she went alone into the hallway to sober up.
The lights swayed. She had just sent the photos when she saw him coming around the corner. She immediately turned her phone around to show him that they had been sent.
Lin Jin paused, then smiled faintly and leaned down, tilting his head.
His gaze went from her phone screen to her face.
Their eyes met.
"There's something else I'd like to ask you, Ruan."
Ruan Yi raised an eyebrow, and he asked:
"That note you gave me, 'dreamboat'..."
"What does it mean?"
Good news: It sent.
Bad news: It went to the wrong app.
[Reading Guide] SC, sweet, sweet, sweet
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Theme: Uphold the core socialist values.
