● One-on-one romance, happy ending, campus story, childhood friends, mutual pining that becomes love
● A lazy sweetheart who expects his wife to save him when the sky falls (Xu Chen) × a top student who’s great at everything except hearing in one ear (Song Ting)
Blurb:
The summer she was seven, Xu Chen met Song Ting for the first time. She thought Song Ting was rude because she ignored her when she said hello.
Only later did Xu Chen learn that a month earlier, Song Ting had lost her father, and had nearly gone deaf in her left ear.
Xu Chen had greeted her from the left that day.
To make up for her mistake, Xu Chen, the brightest little ray of sunshine in their residential compound, launched her “Protect the Little Deaf Girl” plan. She followed Song Ting around every day, spent money on her, invited her out, and would sometimes sneak her home when Song Ting’s mother had to work late so they could eat, do homework, and sleep together.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and the “Protect the Little Deaf Girl” plan had long since turned into:
“Help, Tingting! I forgot my uniform!”
“Help, Tingting! I didn’t do my homework!”
“Help, Tingting! I have nothing to eat today!”
The teachers and students at the affiliated high school had this to say: Whenever Xu Chen cried “Help!”, Tingting would show up in an instant, even if she wasn’t on the same planet.
She really had saved Xu Chen’s life before, but Xu Chen hadn’t planned to repay her by offering herself in marriage.
During the last summer break of high school, one of their friends suddenly started dating, and Xu Chen was so jealous she wanted a relationship too. She complained to Song Ting every day.
Song Ting asked, “Could you wait a few years before dating?”
Xu Chen answered without hesitation, “No! Absolutely not! I want to date now! Someone who’s the best student and treats me the best!”
Song Ting fit the bill perfectly.
“And the most handsome!”
Song Ting was only pretty.
After Xu Chen left, their friend cautiously asked Song Ting, “Are... are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” Song Ting said with a smile, putting her hearing aid back on after taking it off midway through. “I’m used to it.”
Their friend: “...” If you’re really used to it, then stop taking out your hearing aid before you hear Xu Chen say she wants to date someone else.
Later on, their friend witnessed Xu Chen and Song Ting falling in love, and then witnessed them breaking up.
For the next seven years, there was no word from either of them.
[We met in summer, and parted in summer.
I’ve been waiting all along for the next summer, when we’ll meet again.
Song Ting]
Theme: Have dreams, and have the courage to pursue them.
