Caged Sparrow

[Gentle, Frail Writer x Sunny, Straight-Shooting Blogger]

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Hao Youyi's world is gray.

Medication is her shackles, words are her prison, and crowds are her nightmare.

Until a "pink-haired little sparrow" carrying the sweet scent of an Alpen lollipop barged into her life.

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Jing Ziming's world is all about keeping up appearances.

In front of the camera, she's a bubbly top-tier star. Behind it, she's a canary with a heart condition, "imprisoned" by her family.

That quiet, fragile "porcelain doll" became the only light she wanted to hold on to in her dark world.

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They fell in love in silence, communicating through sticky notes.

Until an avalanche on Mount Gongga: one risked her life to save the other's, while the other warmed her broken body with her blood.

"Stay alive!" "I'll stay by your side!" They were each other's most desperate vows.

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They reunited at a book signing.

One was Mu Yang, a writer reborn from the flames. The other was a devoted reader who had broken free of her cage.

That dazzling smile was just like the one from their first meeting.

[Bonus Scene 1]

Jing Ziming loved hiding clues in her videos:

One day, she'd film a writer's profile reflected in a flower shop window. The next, she'd post a matcha mousse gifted by her "bestie."

Until one day, a livestream went awry and the comments exploded:

"That 'bestie' the blogger has her arms around... doesn't she look like that sickly beauty of a writer from the angst-novel circle next door?!"

[Bonus Scene 2]

During one of her episodes, Hao Youyi shattered all the porcelain in the room, then trembled as she curled up in a corner. "I'm crazy. I'll get you killed."

Jing Ziming brushed the glass shards aside with her bare hands and pulled her tight against her chest.

"What a coincidence. I'm sick too."

Reader's Guide:

1. Two female leads playing cat and mouse, both secretly in love but too afraid to confess? Not a chance!

2. HE fans, proceed with caution!

Theme: Mutual pining, the shackles of social convention, the beauty of a tragic ending