[School Days Crush | Second Chance at Love | Reunion After Years Apart | Living Together as Boarders]
Zhu Tianqing rarely hates anyone this much. The first is Zhou Shiyu, and the second is also Zhou Shiyu.
She hates how he ignores her and always goes against her; she hates how he steals Grandma's attention; she hates how he takes up a third of the space that belongs exclusively to her.
Zhu Tianqing comes up with what she thinks is the perfect way to get revenge: make him fall for her, then dump him hard.
On New Year's Eve, Zhou Shiyu passes Zhu Tianqing's room. Her conversation with her best friend drifts through the half-open door:
"...Who'd like some poor country boy? You should've seen how shabby he looked..."
That night, at the entrance to the amusement park where they'd agreed to celebrate the new year together, Zhu Tianqing waits all alone for ages.
The cold dial tone and unanswered messages remind her over and over:
Zhou Shiyu has stood her up and vanished from her world completely, as if he'd never existed.
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Years later, at their reunion, Zhu Tianqing, poisoned by wild mushrooms, clings tightly to Zhou Shiyu and refuses to let go.
Zhou Shiyu doesn't really like Zhu Tianqing.
Her personality is as lively as popping candy; she often throws spoiled little tantrums; she's always pouting and getting angry over nothing, and she's completely unreasonable... There are more than enough flaws to count on both hands.
But when her soft lips brush the corner of his mouth, Zhou Shiyu is dazed for a moment.
It's as if he's back in the cicada-filled summer when they were eighteen, the day he secretly kissed the corner of a sleeping girl's mouth behind a row of upright books.
Popping candy X lemonade
Fashion designer X lawyer
One-on-one romance, both leads' first time
School days first, then city life
Premise: After the rain comes clear skies and spring flowers.
