The Girl Next Door Is a Crybaby

(Trying to rekindle the story, haha.)

(Seems like the rekindling isn't going too well, haha.)

[Her mother is dead, her father drinks, her closest friend is bullied, and she is broken.]

After starting businesses again and again and failing every time, He Xiu was dragged in a daze by her bankrupt parents to Yutian, a remote county town in the south.

Yutian is by the sea. The air is humid, and it rains often.

The rental home they had just moved into was terribly damp. Mold covered the walls, and every piece of wooden furniture was damp and moldy.

Before she moved to Yutian, she hadn't even had time to say goodbye to her best friend. She thought she'd be lonely for quite a while, but just as she stepped off the bus in Yutian, she met the person who would be entangled with her for the rest of her life: Yu Wanqiu.

She lived in the same building as He Xiu, but she was very different.

She was unlike so many people in Yutian.

She spoke standard Mandarin, got excellent grades, and hosted the school radio program. Though she seemed so outstanding, she wasn't the kind of perfect child parents held up as an example to their own.

If she was late, she'd climb over the wall. If she was tired, she'd sleep in class. If she was unhappy, she'd talk back to the teacher. She'd even fight with her father.

When they fought, it was as if they were ready to risk everything, as if the world were falling apart.

She looked like she wasn't afraid of dying, yet she wore a red cord around her wrist, supposedly to keep her safe. It even had quite a story behind it.

If only that red cord could really keep her safe for the rest of her life.

[School life / angst / girls' love / both sexually inexperienced]

Theme: Freedom