Childhood Sweetheart

A sensible finance professional male lead x a sensitive art student female lead

"They are each other's little sun."

They have secretly loved each other for years, weathering many twists and turns before finally ending up together.

Ever since Shen Huan could remember, she had had a sworn enemy: Shen Song. Their parents were close friends, so they arranged for the two of them to marry as children.

Shen Song was such a jerk, or so Shen Huan had always thought. When she was ten, Shen Song went to steal melons from a field. When the farmer caught him, he took off running and left Shen Huan to take the blame.

When Shen Huan was twelve, he went to steal sweet potatoes from someone else's field. While roasting them, he set the owner's firewood alight and nearly caused a fire. Then he blamed Shen Huan again. Her parents already thought she was a rather mischievous girl.

So Shen Huan hated Shen Song.

When she was sixteen, the school organized a short-video contest about preventing bullying, with a cash prize. Shen Song thought she was really being bullied and came to her rescue. It was the first time she felt something inexplicable.

At eighteen, Shen Huan realized her feelings had changed. She could no longer think of him as a brother, so she got into the same university as him.

At university, a rift grew between them. The male lead went abroad, while the female lead devoted herself to her art career.

Years later, when they meet again, the male lead is the client she's working with, and the third female lead is her direct supervisor. Workplace pressure and old feelings weigh on her at once.

They secretly loved each other as teenagers, but grew suspicious of each other as adults. The male lead silently pursues her alone, while the female lead deliberately avoids him.

[Note: After a series of twists, they finally get together at twenty-five. They missed each other, but eventually mend their broken relationship. Many misunderstandings come between them.]

[Romance with a happy ending. There may be a little angst in the middle, but the rest is sweet.]

"The plum tree has borne fruit."

"I told you I liked you back in our senior year."

"We both owe each other an apology."

[The writing could use some work.]

Theme: The sweetest fruit takes twenty-five springs to ripen. "We spent our whole youth learning to be honest."