Spring Haze

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Pop singer × AI engineer | High school and urban settings | Mutual pining | Updates at 6 p.m.

The AI software Nexora became a worldwide sensation as soon as it launched, thanks to its faint hint of “humanity.”

On a whim, an emotional wellness blogger asked it about having a crush. Its answer included enough detail to piece together a real person.

“He’s very tall, with a clean, cool look. He likes singing and playing basketball, and loves lime-flavored soda. He can fold foxtail-grass rabbits, has a faint scent of plants and trees, is a severe neat freak, and has a red heart-shaped birthmark on the inside of his left arm...”

Netizens joked that the software’s developer must have had a deeply unforgettable crush.

Qin Yixi screenshotted the answer that had set the internet abuzz and sent it to her artist, who was on the other side of the ocean.

That night, Xie Yu booked the earliest flight home and hurried to confront one of the software’s developers outside her office building.

He held up his phone and stared at her intently. “This... don’t you think you should explain?”

Shu Yan hurriedly looked away and said only that the past was past and she should move on.

Snowflakes sparkled on the man’s eyelashes as he murmured longingly, “But what am I supposed to do if I still like you?”

Pop singer Xie Yu is modest and reserved. Despite being famous for years, he doesn’t even have a Weibo account.

But one day, Xie Yu not only registered for Weibo, he also reposted Nexora’s official account’s highly popular answer about having a crush, writing his own version from another perspective in the same style.

“She comes up to my chin. She’s resilient and hardworking, always full of life. She likes writing, reading, and osmanthus flowers. Because of her, I fell in love with lime-flavored soda. I thought she didn’t like me, so several times I secretly hugged her shadow in the moonlight...”

And so, the spring mist lifted, and a secret crush turned into passionate love.

*When you love someone, you want the whole world to know.

Reader tips: Gentle, slow burn, light ensemble cast, high school and urban settings.

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Sweet, chatty girl, innocent on the outside and naughty on the inside × cool on the outside, shameless expert in practice

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In high school, to motivate herself to go to school, Xingzhi had many “crushes.”

Of course, her longest-lasting crush was Zhou Xingyan, the campus heartthrob everyone agreed was out of reach.

She secretly slipped him little cookies, brought him ice water after PE, and took detours to look at his photo on the honor roll.

When she was under the most pressure, she even drew fan comics of herself and Zhou Xingyan.

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After the college entrance exams, Xingzhi got into her dream university as she’d hoped and prepared to put all those fake crushes behind her for good.

Who would have thought that not long after the semester began, she would run into Zhou Xingyan at the classroom door?

They ended up in the same dating elective and unexpectedly became dating partners.

They did all the things couples were supposed to do: chat, confess their feelings, go on dates...

Then came an in-class compatibility quiz. Xingzhi confidently turned in her answers, only to get a zero.

Zhou Xingyan recalled a certain rumor, and his face instantly darkened.

Xingzhi swallowed. “If I said it was all a misunderstanding, would you believe me...?”

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Later, Zhou Xingyan stumbled upon a sketchbook.

In Xingzhi’s comics, he was exceptionally talented and tireless, always pinning her down and making her come again and again.

Very well.

Even while pretending to have a crush, she hadn’t forgotten to sleep with him.

He silently memorized everything in the comics and then put it all into practice, one by one.

It was only after a while that Xingzhi realized what was going on.

#Wait, why is he exactly like the one I drew?#

#Help, my comic is coming to life!#

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