[Fake sweet girl, Chinese language education grad student x lovesick puppy-like, socially anxious writer]
Secret crush | Romantic tension | Falling for your best friend’s girlfriend | Stealing someone else’s love?
In her third year of college, Bian Tunan gets a confession.
After an evening class, in the pattering rain, she tiptoes over the puddles outside the teaching building. Beneath the starry sky, she sees a handsome mixed-race guy holding a huge bouquet of roses in the distance. Amid the surrounding cheers, a soft voice behind her suddenly falls silent.
“Bian Tunan, I, ”
“Hmm?” Bian Tunan turns around and sees Zhong Yi’s face hidden in the shadows.
“...It’s nothing.”
With the letter still in his hand and the gift left unsent, Zhong Yi watches Bian Tunan run into his friend’s arms, like the moon following the pull of the tides.
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At a class reunion some time after graduation.
In the dim, yellow light, Zhong Yi watches his friend beg Bian Tunan to get back together. Out of nowhere, the bottle lands on him, and a classmate asks pointedly: “Have you ever had a secret crush?”
From the corner of his eye, he watches the curious woman tilt her head and presses his lips together.
“I choose to drink.”
On the next round, the bottle points to Bian Tunan. With her sweet, fawn-like eyes fixed on him, Zhong Yi feels heat spread through every limb.
He wants to ask, “Could you ever like me?”
But when the words reach his lips, all he can manage is, “Your hair’s messy.”
[Bonus scene]
Her ex asks Bian Tunan to get back together for the eighth time.
Bian Tunan gives him a perfunctory answer. Who would have thought his handsome friend would show up at her door late at night?
She assumes he’s come to settle the score on behalf of his buddy. But then he suddenly takes her hand, presses it against his burning cheek, and says in a drunken, wounded voice, “If you have to date someone, couldn’t you date me?”
“I’m really good at making you like me.”
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“You ask me why I love you?”
“I tried hard to hold it back, but I still love you.”
Key points:
1. The female lead has an ex-boyfriend: a hot, sweet mixed-race younger guy who is also the male lead’s friend.
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[Blurb archived on 2025.6.20. Don’t accuse me of copying!]
Theme: Everyone loves the moon
