A Drifting Heart's Worries

[Female crush | Reunion after years apart | Unrequited love becomes mutual]

Honest, clueless girl VS flirtatious, guiding type

As a student, Yu Liyang was a quiet, honest girl, even keeping her secret crush proper and restrained, never daring to cross the line.

When it came to Quan Yuanzhou, the favored son of heaven with countless titles to his name, she always kept her distance, only daring to sneak a glance when she was many steps behind him.

The closest she ever got to him was at a winter training camp. They were competing in the same contest. He always sat in a corner by the window, straight-backed and aloof, and no one dared strike up a casual conversation with him.

But Yu Liyang was secretly delighted. For twenty-eight days, they had looked at the same patch of sky.

Just as she was happy about their brief intersection, Quan Yuanzhou shot to fame overnight with a song called "Typo," becoming a household name across the country.

After that, he rarely came to school, and her unrequited love, which had gone nowhere, ended abruptly with Quan Yuanzhou's meteoric rise to fame.

It was all so haphazard.

*

Yu Liyang had assumed she was just an insignificant passerby in his dazzling life. She kept this lonely secret in her heart for years, thinking she would gradually forget it.

When they met again, her pounding heart told her: Make up for what you missed.

So Yu Liyang began to pursue him, carefully and tentatively.

She liked every post on his social media, tested the waters about his ideal type, sang one of his love songs in front of him at karaoke, and attended every one of his concerts.

These gestures were so small that Quan Yuanzhou still seemed neither warm nor cold toward her.

Yu Liyang reluctantly realized that Quan Yuanzhou really was hard to win over.

She sighed and decided she would go to one more of his latest performances, then give up.

On the day of the show, his familiar face appeared on the giant screen before the adoring crowd. At the same time, Yu Liyang suddenly received a message on WeChat.

"Aren't you going to come after me?"

That day, her feelings, which she had never been able to forget, finally received an answer.

*

Years later, two photos suddenly made headlines: they showed her and him at the training camp in high school.

On a day of heavy snow, a tall, slender boy took off his scarf and draped it over the head and face of the girl beside him. His large hand shielded her face as he stared coolly into the paparazzi's camera.

Through the gaps between his fingers, the girl watched the boy beside her with a burning gaze, never looking away for even a second, following his every move with something close to longing.

By then, they were already together.

Only then did Yu Liyang realize that perhaps the person she had been secretly in love with had known all along.

Hot tears slipped quietly down her cheeks. Quan Yuanzhou gently kissed them. "Why are you crying?"

Yu Liyang buried her face deep in his embrace and wiped her tears on his shirt. All the grievances of years spent secretly loving him poured out in one sentence: "Do you know... how hard you were to win over back then?"

Quan Yuanzhou only smiled. "Yu Liyang,"

He pinched her cheek. "Do you know... I don't give everyone a chance to pursue me."

Her wandering heart finally found its peace.

Reading guide: 1. No real-life inspirations. No shipping real people. 2. The school arc is not very long.

Theme: Love well