Only the Cherry Blossoms Know (Opening January 1)

1.

[Wen, I've actually liked you for a long time!]

On impulse, Xi Ying confessed to her high school classmate, whom she'd had a crush on for years. The result was obvious: she was rejected.

He replied several hours later.

[Who are you?]

"..."

Xi Ying promptly pretended to be dead. She thought they could just leave things there, but then...

Wen Jin became as impossible to shake as a ghost.

She went with a friend to take some photos, and the location happened to be Wen Jin's school.

Beneath the cherry tree by the classroom building, Xi Ying stood on a classroom chair and posed. She lost her balance and fell straight into the arms of a boy passing by after class.

His knit vest was clean and warm, carrying the scent of spring. Blushing, Xi Ying looked up and met the boy's cool, inscrutable eyes behind rimless glasses, their quiet gaze somehow alluring.

Even his voice was abstinent, without a trace of emotion.

"Careful, classmate."

Xi Ying's heart pounded. She decided she could survive one more moment of social death. No, she could be brave one more time!

"Wen Jin, hello! Let's get reacquainted. I'm Xi Ying, your high school classmate you haven't seen in four years!"

2.

Wen Jin was a robot.

"Wen, want to go out for a meal together?"

"1."

"Want to go to an amusement park?"

"1."

"A movie?"

"1."

There was only one exception.

"Wen, will you be my boyfriend? Reply with 1 if you agree."

"..."

"3."

3.

Heartbroken, Xi Ying deleted all of Wen Jin's contact information and went away for an internship. The power and water were cut off in her rental apartment. On a howling, stormy night, curled up alone in a corner of her room, she couldn't help calling the number she'd blocked long ago.

"Little robot, I miss you so much."

The young man arrived in the middle of the typhoon and knocked on her door. He looked at her calmly.

"I'm here."

She rushed into his arms, her voice breaking as she looked up at him with galaxies swirling in her eyes.

"Could you hold me?"

He braced one long leg against the door and pulled her firmly into his arms.

"Kiss me. Now."

4.

Later, one day after work, Xi Ying stopped her car at the school gate and ran into a high school classmate, who asked, "Xi Ying, what are you doing here?"

Xi Ying replied, "Picking up my husband from school!"

Her classmate's pupils shook, and their expression turned indescribable.

The next second, Wen Jin walked over from across the street, holding books and wearing his rimless glasses.

Xi Ying immediately bounced over. "Honey!"

Her classmate: "???" The once-great academic genius had ended up a husband after all!

After seeing the classmate off, Xi Ying rolled up the car window. Wen Jin pulled her into his arms.

Xi Ying turned bright red. "Wen Jin, what are you doing?!"

He said the coldest words while doing the most outrageous thing.

"Taking my wife to work overtime."

Help! The aloof type is like this behind closed doors!

5.

Wen Jin, a genius in the mathematics department at Jiang University, was cool, proper, and from a privileged family. His friends called him a robot with no emotions. For the first twenty-some years of his life, he had focused solely on his studies and had no plans to date. He also thought his high school classmate Xi Ying was no more than a casual acquaintance.

After Xi Ying pursued him for months, he was even more certain of it.

Until a class reunion, when he saw Xi Ying talking to a male classmate and a memory came back to him.

One night in their second year of high school, after evening study, he'd stood by the window packing up his books. Down below, beneath the cherry trees along the path by the classroom building, Xi Ying stood in the rain with her backpack and a clear umbrella while that same classmate confessed to her.

He was mad with jealousy.

Then and now.

"I love you. Only the cherry blossoms know."

"Now you know, too."

Xi Ying x Wen Jin

Naturally airheaded, adorable girl x abstinent, lovesick human robot

A girl's everyday pursuit of the man she loves / The aloof flower comes down from the altar

Theme: The person you like likes you back.