Every Step Back Was My Way of Saying I Love You

[Mutual Pining] [Reunion After Years Apart]

Question: What does someone with an avoidant personality do when they meet someone they like?

Answer: Leave. Go far, far away, then sneak a look back.

Question: What if the person they like confesses to them?

Answer: Run. Run right away. Run for your life.

The instrument Chu An played best in life was the retreat.

In high school, the boy she had a crush on was confessed to by someone else, and she immediately backed off. "So what if I like him? Does liking someone mean we have to be together? Does an outsider even understand?"

In college, the boy she had a crush on seemed to have a girlfriend, so she backed off again. "It's fine. Maybe he doesn't even know my name. There's nothing to be sad about."

And so she kept retreating for ten years.

Ten years later, when they met again, her white moonlight actually confessed to her.

The alarm blared wildly: Retreat! Retreat!

How could her white moonlight possibly like her? She must have gotten out of bed the wrong way.

She was used to performing a one-woman show, but under his relentless advances, she eventually had nowhere left to retreat.

"Cui Yuzhou, what's the story with this love letter? Are you dating already?"

"Cui Yuzhou, why did your class ranking drop this time?"

"Cui Yuzhou, we need to talk about your studies lately."

Cui Yuzhou spent his whole life trapped beneath the so-called aura of a top student, unable to do anything even slightly out of line.

Until she appeared in his life, which had lost all its color.

A free-spirited girl who could not be bound.

In places she never knew about, he quietly watched her and envied everything she had.

But he could never take that step, until one day, when it was all too late.

Ten years later, when they met again, he saw her drunk at the bar, calling out another man's name.

He would no longer choose to retreat. So what if she didn't like him? So what if she liked another man? Even if he was some male supporting character whose ranking he didn't know.

He would take out every male supporting character and claim the male lead spot!

Theme: The love we cannot put into words gathers into a sea.