Dog has been a graduate student for a year now.
She has clever classmates, a young and promising advisor, and a cool, aloof senior who is the best at everything she does.
The senior is beautiful, capable, and from a wealthy family. She is the most coveted flower on an unreachable cliff.
But Dog is just an utterly ordinary lab laggard.
Every day, she ties her naturally curly hair into a messy, fluffy ponytail, puts on big black-framed glasses, slings a huge backpack over her shoulders, and carries two buns around campus, like a ghost no one notices.
Lots of people like the senior. No one likes Dog.
If she really were a dog, she would probably be a gloomy, withdrawn stray mutt that nobody wanted.
Dog knows this. She doesn't care.
*
But one day, the campus confession wall suddenly posted a picture and tagged her.
It was a photo of an anonymous love letter written to her.
Cute stationery, elegant handwriting, heartfelt words, and a love that was tender and subtle.
Dog was stunned.
Dog's friends were stunned.
Dog's advisor was stunned, too.
But the senior was calm.
As if she hadn't written the letter herself.
*
Dog starts investigating, determined to find her anonymous admirer.
She has a secret: she does care.
She hopes someone will like her.
*
The senior has a secret, too.
She has liked Dog for a long time.
In her bright, smooth-sailing life, liking that person has been a long, unending rainy spell.
She doesn't want anyone, Dog included, to know about her secret crush.
Until one day.
The fifteen love letters she wrote to Dog were stolen and posted.
*
The anonymous love-letter thief and submitter has a bigger secret.
At first, she simply hated the senior.
Later, she started to like Dog a little.
-- I may be drab and gray, but in your eyes alone, I shine.
-- The only things in this world that can't be hidden are coughing, poverty, and love.
An extension of the classic senior-and-dog pairing. Calling her a dog isn't meant as an insult; it's just a cute little trope.
-- 2025/5/10 Box Lvtanmu
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