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Blurb:
At fifteen, Lin Xia met Zhou Xuchen for the first time.
He became a brief heartache in her short life.
The boy who danced and sang with abandon onstage
soon leaped from Guangnan High School to the stages of world tours,
while she, lying on her deathbed, drifted farther and farther away from him.
Lin Xia never thought she would see him again,
until she woke up in his arms that day.
"Zhou Xuchen, I like you."
Saying those words to him in person was the only wish she had in her previous life.
But rejection came even faster.
"I'm sorry. I have a white moonlight who passed away long ago."
Lin Xia gritted her teeth and chewed over the resentment she'd been hiding.
She decided to be nothing more than a fan of his career.
And so, later on...
He asked her on a date, and she ran off to clear up a rumor about the two of them all by herself.
He asked her on a date, and she turned him down to sneak into his company and expose a plot involving him.
He asked her on a date, and she stood him up, only to end up battered and bruised in his arms on the way to the hospital.
She was warm one moment and distant the next, while he patiently drew closer, little by little.
Beneath the green hills, incense smoke curled above the burner.
He had arranged their chance meeting and waited for her to walk into his trap.
"Lin Xia, how much longer are you going to avoid me?"
A thousand miles away, mountains stretched beneath an endless blanket of snow.
There, too, he used the silent snowfall to tell her how much he missed her.
"Lin Xia, let me play you the sound of falling snow."
In the end, he confessed, and only then did Lin Xia realize:
Wait, what? She's the white moonlight who died young!
[Little Scene]
One day, in some year and month, Zhou Xuchen took Lin Xia to pray for a destined match.
As she offered incense, a few incense sticks in front of her suddenly dropped a lot of ash. Lin Xia leaned forward and saw even more ash, piled thickly beneath the burner.
She suddenly stopped moving.
"Do you think the gods can hear everyone's wishes when so many people are praying?"
Zhou Xuchen said nothing. He simply took her hand and firmly pushed the incense into place.
"It's all right. I can hear you."
The morning light was just right, falling at an angle across half his face as he looked at her, making his peach-blossom eyes seem especially gentle.
Lin Xia suddenly felt a stirring in her heart.
She still couldn't help loving him.
Even if it meant she would die.
[Reading Guide]
1. The story involves time travel in both directions: the heroine first transmigrates to the future, then back to the past.
2. This novel leans toward serious drama. The leads' ending will suit the story's development, and it has an open ending.
3. The leads are exclusive to each other, each other's first love, and have no real-life models.
Next book: Crush and Boss Both Reveal Their Secret Identities, Please Add to Your Reading List
Bai Xiang had been single her whole life, and at last she met a crush who made her heart flutter.
Though it was an online romance, and the other person lived abroad...
Her crush was knowledgeable and talented.
"Can I ask you something about my thesis?"
"I'd be happy to help."
Before she could even thank him, a file popped up in the chat.
He had stayed up all night revising her mistake-ridden outline.
Her crush was gentle and considerate.
"Wah, I fell flat on my face at work today."
"Want me to send you a hug?"
The next day, Bai Xiang received an adorable plush bear.
And her crush was also great at showing off what was under his clothes...
Every night, without fail, he sent her the results of his workout.
An unbuttoned white shirt, defined abs visible beneath it,
and the faint outline of his chocolate-bar abs.
Only a handsome guy could be so disciplined and so vain!
He was absolutely her ideal type!
Her crush was perfect in every way, except she couldn't kiss him, touch him, or hug him.
Luckily, after six months of yearning, her crush finally returned home after completing his studies.
But why did the calm, detached person waiting at the arrivals gate
have a face she recognized and feared?
Bai Xiang walked over and greeted him with utmost respect.
"What a coincidence, boss. What are you doing here?"
"It's no coincidence. I'm waiting for you."
She was still confused when Qiao Yusen took out another phone.
On it were the chat logs from every day and night of the past six months.
Suppressing the answer on the tip of her tongue, Bai Xiang asked, unwilling to give up,
"What's going on? Did you steal his phone?"
"Security in Italy is pretty good."
Qiao Yusen's eyes showed a helplessness beyond words. "Guoguo, I'm him."
Though she kept a straight face, Bai Xiang was about to lose her mind.
What should she do? Her crush and her boss had revealed their secret identities at the same time!
And she'd only just rejected her boss's confession yesterday!
Theme: Love wins all
