Borrowing a Light and Mistaken for a High Schooler

A city romance about two people putting on airs. A free short story written for love | A falsely brooding, truly flashy peacock of a man x a falsely outgoing, truly sensitive hedgehog of a woman | If you enjoy it, please give it a favorite or a rating~

(The campus novel The Puppy Wags Its Tail is complete, and the atypical marriage-before-love story One Night of Begonias is nearly complete, too. You’re welcome to favorite and enjoy them, and please check out my next soon-to-be-released novel, Springtime in the Small Town, a slow-paced story about small-town life~)

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Wang Yue was onstage at an open mic, animatedly venting about the “Prince Charming” she’d run into that morning.

Then she noticed a man in the back row, dressed in an immaculate overcoat, his face utterly devoid of a smile.

He was none other than the very “Prince Charming” she’d just been describing in such colorful detail.

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Wang Yue never would have imagined that she’d be telling jokes onstage while the person they were about sat in the audience. And yet, here she was.

As soon as her performance ended, she bolted through the bar’s side door, trying to reassure herself: “Stand-up comedy is the art of offending people.”

But just as she pushed open the back door, one foot still on the threshold, she looked up and saw “Prince Charming” standing right there.

He wore a neat, dark gray wool coat, and a freshly lit cigarette was pinched between the second joints of his index and middle fingers.

The man didn’t look surprised to see Wang Yue. It was as if he’d been waiting for her on purpose.

Wang Yue was still debating whether she should apologize and hurry out of this “danger zone” when he spoke first: “Young, beautiful lady, care to share a smoke?”

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* Mature man and woman

Theme: Persevere in pursuing your dreams