Hold On to His Jersey

Tall, muscular, cool jock × sweet, gentle, straight-A girl

A teenage crush comes true | Mutual pining, each other's first love | 197 cm × 160 cm, an amazing height difference | Scheming, flirtatious basketball team captain winking at a blind man × socially anxious, soft girl with a high tolerance for cluelessness and the top grades in her year

1.

When Lin Fanxing transferred to Qili High School, a classmate told her that the most popular person at Qili was Chen Yinghe, who slept at the back of the classroom.

The boy had perfect bone structure and a strikingly handsome face that could win anyone over, and he also had incredible talent for basketball.

He had won every kind of basketball championship and was a national team player. He was famous at schools all over Linjin City and even somewhat well known online.

However, this darling of the heavens had a bad temper. He was cool and arrogant, not someone you wanted to mess with. His imposing, muscular 197 cm frame towered over everyone, and when his icy, heavy-browed face darkened in anger, he was terrifying.

There were two times when you absolutely couldn't disturb him: when he was playing basketball and when he was sleeping. But he was always either playing basketball or sleeping.

Lin Fanxing said, Fine, I won't bother him.

But no one at school knew that she had moved into Chen Yinghe's home at the same time she transferred.

Later, Lin Fanxing was helping Chen Yinghe with math problems in the study.

Beneath the desk lamp, her pale arm swung back and forth. Suddenly, he bit down on it.

Her explanation stopped abruptly: "..."

The boy looked up, his dark eyes shining like those of a big wolfhound.

Lin Fanxing had always remembered what her classmate told her: He's dangerous, don't mess with him, he's terrifying when he's angry... But he's biting me T_T

She could only hold out her left hand and gently coax him. "Can you bite my left hand? I need my right hand to do problems."

Chen Yinghe: Damn, she's so cute.

2.

It was class beauty Jiang Fang's birthday.

Before going in, Lin Fanxing took off the jacket she had been holding over her head to keep off the rain, grabbed it by the collar, shook it out, and went inside.

Suddenly, someone bumped her shoulder.

A tall boy rushed in through the rain, cake in one hand, a gift box in the other, and a rose clenched between his teeth.

The room erupted when he appeared.

"Holy crap, Ying-ge looks incredible with a rose in his mouth!"

"Hey, who's the girl next to him?"

"The new transfer student in Class Five."

"Wait, why is she holding Chen Yinghe's jacket?"

Before leaving, Lin Fanxing went to say goodbye to Jiang Fang and told her she was heading home.

Jiang Fang was playing a game with Chen Yinghe and was too busy to answer.

But Chen Yinghe, sitting nearby with his legs crossed, casually said, "Go home and wait for me. Don't fall asleep. I didn't bring the house key."

Everyone fell silent. Some coughed; others started teasing them.

Lin Fanxing tossed back, "The house has a fingerprint lock. It doesn't need a key," then turned and left, still holding the boy's jacket over her head as she ran into the rain.

That night, Lin Fanxing asked Chen Yinghe why he hadn't kept his promise and had mentioned that they lived under the same roof.

Under the desk lamp, in front of the desk, the boy propped his head on one hand and used a rose to lift the girl's chin. His tone was lazy and roguish. "Because you smiled so happily at that guy beside you while you were eating cake."

3.

After that day...

At the school's outdoor basketball court, a friend said, "Ying-ge, Jiang Fang asked Lin Fanxing what your relationship is. Lin Fanxing said you're siblings, that you're her big brother. Is that true? So it turns out you two only have a sibling relationship?"

As he said this, Lin Fanxing happened to walk past the basketball court with a stack of workbooks half as tall as she was.

Chen Yinghe lifted his jersey to wipe away his sweat. His eight-pack abs gleamed in the sunlight, drawing the eyes of every girl nearby. Gasps rose one after another.

Only Lin Fanxing walked past him without looking. He reached out, grabbed her school uniform, and pulled her back.

"If you tell people I'm your big brother, why don't you say hello when you see your brother?"

Her oval face was half hidden behind the workbooks, leaving only her big, bright eyes visible.

Chen Yinghe bent over, bracing both hands on his knees to reduce the height difference. He deliberately lowered his voice beside her ear. "Call me 'big brother' once and I'll do your homework. Call me 'big brother' twice, and from now on, I'm yours."

Bonus Scene:

One early morning after they got together, Lin Fanxing saw someone on a social media app ask: What's it like dating a basketball player?

With a long face, she angrily typed out a reply: "I used to live alone. Now I'm an empty-nest old lady."

Someone asked under her comment, "Hahahaha, when are you breaking up?"

Lin Fanxing shared the post with her boyfriend, using it as an excuse to tell him how much she missed him.

Two minutes later, basketball star Chen Yinghe, who had tens of millions of followers, replied to that person in the comments: "In our next life."

The reply set off a frenzy. The post and its comments blew up, quickly climbing to the top of the trending list.

Then Lin Fanxing heard a knock at the door, and her phone lit up with an incoming call.

She answered, and Chen Yinghe laughed at the other end, affectionate and wicked. "Open the door. Your husband brought you a late-night snack to comfort the empty-nest girl."

*

Chen Yinghe told Lin Fanxing that they had met once when they were eight years old.

That night, eight-year-old Chen Yinghe lay awake, staring into the darkness. He picked up a pencil and wrote on the wall beside his bed:

[She's Fanxing, and I'm the Milky Way.]

Later, when Lin Fanxing saw those words, she borrowed her daughter's pencil and added a line:

[We were made for each other.]

Super sweet, super sweet, super sweet!!! Please add it to your collection~

Mainly set at school.

Note: There are no descriptions of intimate behavior while the leads are underage.

Next book coming soon, The One Who Stirs My Heart: aloof, abstinent professor × hot, talented top-tier star idol:

Ten years ago, Song Zhi wrote in her elementary school diary: [Big Brother came back and brought another super handsome big brother with him. That big brother smiled and said hello to me. He said, "Hello, kid. My name is Lu Zeshen."]

Ten years later, the Song and Lu families arranged a business marriage. Lu Zeshen was so bored at the engagement ceremony that he fell asleep, and Song Zhi happened to see him.

Song Zhi lightly lifted the hem of her dress, bent down, and stole a fleeting kiss on the man's cheek. She whispered, "Lu Zeshen, you're mine now."

She turned to leave, but the man hooked an arm around her waist and pulled her back into his embrace.

Lu Zeshen propped his head up with one hand, lifting his eyelids slightly. His dark eyes seemed to smile, and his deep, languid voice was casual. "I didn't hear you. Say that again."

*

Professor Lu Zeshen of A University was the campus heartthrob: noble, cool, abstinent, and taciturn. Even rolling up his sleeves during class once in a while was enough to drive his students wild.

A student once posted a ten-second video of Lu Zeshen teaching on a short-video app. It reached over ten million likes in no time.

The top comment read: [Professor Lu, stop writing on the blackboard. Write on me instead.]

One day before class, a student used the classroom computer to play a live performance of a new song by her favorite idol, Song Zhi.

In the video, Song Zhi had rainbow-colored hair, a devilishly curvy figure, an angelic face, and a sexy, sizzling outfit as she sang and danced under the stage lights.

When Lu Zeshen entered the lecture hall, there were still thirty seconds left in the video.

To everyone's surprise, he didn't immediately shut it off. Instead, he leaned against the lectern and watched the last thirty seconds with the students.

A student in the front row noticed Lu Zeshen's long-fingered hand resting on the desk and the ring on his ring finger. They called out, "Teacher, your ring looks just like the one our Zhi-Zhi wears!"

Without even looking up, Lu Zeshen replied calmly, "There isn't another ring like this in the world."

Student: "No way, no way! Are you saying our Zhi-Zhi's is a knockoff?"

Lu Zeshen glanced sideways, his expression calm and unruffled, with a hint of helplessness behind his glasses. "I mean, she's your teacher's wife."

The students: "... Hahahahahahaha." What a funny joke.

The students didn't believe him, until someone dug up the fact that the account that left the top comment on Lu Zeshen's viral video was Song Zhi's. It shot to the top of the trending list...

Theme: Feel love, embrace love, and let love shine.