The Young Lady Always Tells Me Not to Leave After School

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[Small-town slice-of-life romance, slow burn]

[Tsundere heiress, cold on the outside and warm within x sunny, straightforward, energetic puppy-like girl] Six months apart in age

No. 1 High School is located in a small county town in Jiangzhou.

One day, a young heiress who seemed completely out of place arrived at the gray-and-white school building: Xu Qianyun.

The heiress was dazzling and confident, dressed head to toe in designer clothes. Even the curve of her hair ends looked meticulously styled.

Her desk drawer was stuffed with love letters, but her status made plenty of people too intimidated to approach her.

Then one afternoon, Xu Qianyun found a notebook of wrong answers beside the lectern. When she opened it, she saw notes from three or four different subjects, and two large characters on the cover: Wen Zheng.

Xu Qianyun searched her memory for the girl.

After school:

"Wen Zheng." Xu Qianyun waved the notebook in front of the whole class. "Don't leave after school."

In the corner, Wen Zheng's pencil snapped against her workbook.

Wen Zheng: "?!"

The whole class: "?!!!"

Every one of them thought Wen Zheng was done for.

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Wen Zheng was popular and had lots of friends. When she smiled, her eyes curved into crescents, and even the strictest teachers couldn't help softening their voices around her.

So when Xu Qianyun said coldly, "Don't leave after school," the entire class erupted.

"Did you do something to upset her?" her childhood friend asked nervously.

Wen Zheng shook her head, bewildered. "But I only met her today..."

"Maybe she wants to be friends with you?" another friend guessed.

"Then why is she cornering me?" Wen Zheng shrank back, remembering Xu Qianyun's beautiful eyes.

Her deskmate suddenly slapped the table and lowered her voice. "I get it! What if she likes you?"

Xu Qianyun, hiding by the classroom's back door and only intending to return the notebook: "..."

She watched Wen Zheng fretfully rub her hair, like a little animal with its fur standing on end, and suddenly thought of the orange cat at home, which curled into a ball whenever it did something wrong.

After school, Xu Qianyun shoved the notebook into Wen Zheng's arms. A lemon candy was tucked inside.

Wen Zheng froze. "...Huh?"

Her missing notebook was in Xu Qianyun's hands? Even more surprising, after that, Xu Qianyun's "Don't leave after school" gradually changed its tune:

"Wen Zheng, let's go together."

"Wen Zheng, wait for me."

"Wen Zheng..."

Then one day, Wen Zheng happened to see Xu Qianyun's sketchbook.

The moment she opened the first page, her fingers trembled.

Every drawing, starting with the very first one, was of her.

Little Scene:

"Wen Zheng, how do you like your steak cooked?"

During lunch break, her childhood friend Yu Tian suddenly leaned over and asked, her eyes suspiciously evasive.

Wen Zheng bit down on her pen cap and blinked. "Medium rare, the kind with a bit of blood."

Yu Tian's expression instantly froze. Around the corner in the hallway, Xu Qianyun tightened her grip on a VIP card for an upscale restaurant.

"Um..." Yu Tian continued, steeling herself. "Xu says well-done is better..."

"Yu Tian." Wen Zheng suddenly smiled, looking past her at the shirt hem peeking out from the corner. "Tell Miss Xu..."

"If she wants to take me out to eat, she can just say so."

"If she wants me to be the lead in the school play, she can just say so."

"After all..." Her voice carried a teasing lilt. "We can take our time getting closer."

Behind the wall, Xu Qianyun clenched the hem of her shirt, wrinkling it. Her ears turned as red as the strawberries she'd given Wen Zheng that morning.

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Reader's Guide: All-female world

1. Tsundere x straightforward

2. Art student x science student

Set in 2018

Also known as The Right Way to Use a Wrong-Answer Notebook, A Guide to Jiangzhou, Grandma's Complete Recipe Collection

3. They get together after turning 18

Theme: Study hard, and get along with one another