After I Added the Wrong Matchmaking Date

[The illustrations for this story are now available. Click to view and join the event w] [Story complete. For free merch for subscribers, see WB: ChujiuJIU] #I Added the Wrong Blind Date, and Got Matched with My Crush!# Under pressure from her family, Song Xu accepted a friend request on WeChat from the person she was supposed to meet on a blind date. As soon as they connected, Song Xu got straight to the point: she liked someone else, and was only going along with the blind date to appease her parents. She didn’t want to waste either of their time. After a brief silence, the other person replied: Since we’ve already added each other, why not chat and see how it goes? To put him off, Song Xu started sharing little updates about her crush every day. “Ran into him while walking my dog today. His dog is tiny and so cute.” “He has abs too. I really want to touch them.” “Walking across campus with him made my heart go thump, thump.” … Her crush was Qin Shen, the youngest chemistry professor at Huai University. He had only recently returned from overseas. He was the secret she had kept to herself since she was a teenager, and nobody knew. She thought no one could put up with a blind date who was in love with someone else. But not only did the other person refuse to give up, somehow he became the person she chatted with most. Gradually, Song Xu began treating her blind date as the person she could confide in about her crush, telling him every little detail of her interactions with Qin Shen, even though they barely knew each other. Then, not long afterward, she heard from someone else that Qin Shen already liked someone. After her “heartbreak,” Song Xu threw caution to the wind and agreed to meet the blind date, who had suggested they get together. As she approached the cafe where they were supposed to meet, she caught sight through the window of a familiar figure in a suit. She wasn’t prepared for it at all. He happened to look up, and their eyes met. Her heart pounded. It was Qin Shen. The next second, he looked away, lowered his head, and picked up his phone. He didn’t look at her again. Just as he had countless times when she passed his classroom in middle school. She had never left any impression on him. Song Xu lowered her eyes, unable to make sense of what she was feeling. Then the phone in her pocket suddenly vibrated. A message from her blind date. “I’m in the second row, third seat.” “I’m wearing a black suit and a dark brown tie.” “The man you just saw was me.” [Reader’s Guide] 1. Cartoonist x university professor. One-on-one, each other’s first love. They have mutual unspoken feelings but neither knows it. Due to a misunderstanding, they barely crossed paths in high school. It’ll be explained in the story w, so I won’t spoil it here. 2. Alternates between the present-day city setting and memories of their student days. The student-life flashbacks make up a smaller portion. 3. The male lead has a little beagle. It really is tiny and adorable ^q^, but it goes “werwerwer” and wrecks the house every day. He’s very patient and has an exceptionally good temper. A pure-hearted college student turned professor, he’ll let the female lead do whatever she wants to him (what). 4. A very short novella. No secondary couples. Sweet and lighthearted. 5. The city, school, and place names are the same as in the author’s completed neighboring story, After Adding the Wrong Big Brother on WeChat. ● Coming soon: After Dumping My Online Boyfriend. Please add it to your reading list via the author’s page in the top-right corner~ #After Dumping My Online Boyfriend, a Senior from the Main Campus Started Haunting Me Like a Ghost# Ji Xingshuang had a mild difficulty socializing with men. At her friends’ urging, she got an online boyfriend during her freshman year. Her online boyfriend was wonderful in every way: clingy, with a lovely voice, writing her handwritten love letters, always buying her presents, and even sending her pictures of his abs… He made it much easier for her to socialize with men. The only problem was, he kept wanting to meet in person. Ji Xingshuang had never wanted to meet in person. The summer before her sophomore year, just short of their first anniversary, her online boyfriend suddenly messaged her at midnight on her birthday: [Xiaoxing, happy birthday. I’m at the airport in D City.] Ji Xingshuang was so frightened she broke up with him on the spot, then deleted all his contact information. When sophomore year began, Ji Xingshuang transferred from D City to the main campus in A City. On her first day, she met a senior whose voice sounded exactly like her online boyfriend’s. He was also wearing the bracelet she had given her boyfriend. Ji Xingshuang: … This is bad. - Everyone around Fan Jing knew he had an online girlfriend he treasured above all else. For her, he moved off campus just so he could talk her to sleep every night. For her, he knitted scarves and bags by hand. For her, he went to celebrate her birthday even when he had a fever. … Even after they broke up, Fan Jing still wore the bracelet his online girlfriend had given him. His phone wallpaper was a screenshot of their chat, he kept up the habit of writing in his love diary every day, and he turned down every girl who approached him. Someone teased him: “Are you planning to stay faithful to your ex for the rest of your life?” Fan Jing smiled and said nothing. Not long afterward, rumors that Fan Jing was pursuing a junior spread across the whole school. Someone commented: “So much for the ex being special.” - At a club gathering, someone deliberately brought up Fan Jing’s ex in front of his current girlfriend. Fan Jing didn’t stop them. His current girlfriend lowered her eyes and sipped her drink. No one could tell what she was thinking. That night, Fan Jing held Ji Xingshuang in his arms and kissed her until she couldn’t breathe. “Xiaoxing, everyone knows how much I love you.” [Reader’s Guide] 1. The female lead attends a branch campus in her freshman year and transfers to the main campus in her sophomore year. 2. The female lead used to be rather introverted, but she’ll change somewhat. ● The completed sweet romance After Adding the Wrong Big Brother on WeChat is available on the author’s page in the top-right corner~ #I Added the Wrong Big Brother on WeChat, and Got His Roommate Instead!# Yun Xiu lost both her parents and was raised by her grandparents. Through their hard work, she got into Huai University, a top school. Just after the semester began, she heard that her favorite distant cousin from childhood, Shen Xuyuan, also attended Huai University. He was a year ahead of her, and they were at different campuses. They hadn’t been in touch for over a decade. After agonizing over it for a long time, Yun Xiu managed to get Shen Xuyuan’s WeChat and add him as a friend. Afraid of being a bother, she thought she’d start by catching up over messages. He never suggested meeting in person. But… time and again, he had food-delivery couriers bring her all sorts of things, from new milk tea flavors and hand cream to pricey bracelets. Her roommates all teased her about what kind of amazing boyfriend she had, refusing to believe that the person was merely a cousin she was related to by blood. Yan Lan was a campus celebrity at Huai University. During his freshman year, a close-up candid photo of him went viral throughout the school. There was no mystery why: his deep blue eyes looked like ocean-floor whirlpools dusted with stars, with a power that could draw anyone in. They said his mother was a beautiful Russian woman. Yet he himself was a true ice-cold heartthrob. Not a single girl managed to get his WeChat during his entire freshman year. Until one night, when he was drunk, Yan Lan accidentally accepted a friend request. The request was accompanied by the note: [Big Brother, it’s Xiuxiu] A clichéd and boring trick. When he sobered up, Yan Lan looked at the messages in their chat, every one of them calling him “Big Brother.” He was about to delete her when he happened to glance at her Moments and saw a photo. In the photo, the girl held a promotional flyer. Her slender, fair fingers were like fine white jade, the knuckles faintly pink, with a cute, pale mole at the base of her thumb. No one knew that Yan Lan was hopelessly obsessed with hands. One glance at the hand in the photo, and he couldn’t look away. At a club dinner, Yun Xiu ran into Shen Xuyuan at a private party. After chatting briefly, she learned she had added the wrong person, and had been calling a stranger “Big Brother” for months. Yun Xiu was so embarrassed she felt as if she’d been left out in the blazing sun all day. She hurriedly transferred him some money and deleted him as a friend. Not long afterward, Yan Lan cornered Yun Xiu below her dorm building. He gently held her slender wrist, his thumb brushing over her knuckles as if by accident. Yun Xiu: “Senior Yan, I…” The legendary ice-cold heartthrob’s eyes warmed, his deep blue gaze becoming a cage meant for her alone. “Why don’t you call me Big Brother anymore?” Later, Yun Xiu discovered a great many paintings in the studio of Yan Lan’s off-campus apartment. Every single one of them depicted her hands. Later still, she found that it wasn’t just her hands. He had secretly sketched all kinds of portraits of her, too. *Adding the wrong person was a mix-up, but when the person is you, it’s a sweet peach oolong* - Theme: Be brave and pursue what you want.