Please, Let Me Get Closer

Chu Yi is a very unlucky girl.

Whichever celebrity she likes gets canceled. Whatever food she loves gets caught up in a scandal. She's been second in every exam for years, while first place always goes to her most hated rival. The girl she's secretly in love with flirts with her for a while, then says she's straight. And that's just the beginning.

After eighteen years of living like this, at least Chu Yi still has a happy family.

Then, after the college entrance exams, her parents, who had spent twenty years treating each other with polite distance, calmly brought out their divorce papers. The family had actually been over long ago; they'd only waited for her to come of age before splitting up.

Chu Yi: Life is falling apart at the seams. So much room to breathe~

After the divorce, Chu Yi goes with her mother to start a new family, and gets an older sister in name.

The moment she sees her sister's face, Chu Yi thinks she must be seeing things.

Otherwise, why does she see her archrival Li He?

Li He, who has held first place for years, outranking her from elementary school all the way through college, and who wins another bottle every time she casually buys a drink, is her impossibly lucky archrival. And now she's Chu Yi's older sister?

Chu Yi: Grandma Heaven, I call you Grandma, not because I want to be your granddaughter for real!

Li He actually noticed Chu Yi a long time ago.

Because she had never imagined that anyone could be this unlucky.

Much less that someone so unlucky could be such an optimist.

Every day, she cheerfully shares the most trivial bits of life with her friends. Even if the sky fell, she could get back up and yell at it, "Did I say you could fall?!"

She's a little dim, completely nonsensical, but unexpectedly fascinating.

So, to get closer to her, Li He would always quietly move into her orbit.

She would secretly try the snacks Chu Yi liked.

She would secretly follow the female idol Chu Yi liked.

She would secretly sit in on the electives Chu Yi often took.

She would even secretly get to know the older student Chu Yi was closest to.

But the snacks failed food safety checks and ended up in a consumer-protection exposé.

The female idol was exposed for privately contacting fans, and their chat logs were leaked.

The elective happened to be one of Li He's strongest subjects, and she casually came first in the exam.

Worse still, the older student she'd only recently met confessed to Li He.

After coolly turning her down, Li He turned around and unexpectedly saw Chu Yi.

Chu Yi was fuming, looking as if she might turn into a ball and explode at any moment.

Li He was a little nervous. "If I said it was all a misunderstanding..."

"Don't say another word!" Chu Yi ground her teeth, stamped her foot, and shouted, "I hate you!"

A carefree, single-minded younger sister who loves doing whatever she wants x a seemingly aloof, secretly gloomy and scheming older sister

1. The younger sister really is incredibly unlucky. It's not the older sister's doing. The older sister really is lucky, too.

2. A silly, sweet little bedtime snack. This time, there really is no angst.

3. Not much drama (probably). I just want to write a nice romance.

4. The protagonists aren't on the same household register. They're sisters in name only.

5. There'll be a few bumps in the road before true love arrives~

Theme: A sweet little treat