Flowers and Snow Are Most Fitting

After lying low for years and finally killing the enemy who murdered her parents, Wen Shengyi discovers that there is more to their deaths than she knew.

She sets out to uncover the truth.

She never expected to meet the well-known carefree swordsman of the martial world along the way.

As they travel together, she gradually realizes that he isn't as aloof and distant as the rumors say.

Instead, he quietly watches her with clear, bright eyes, and gently calls her name in a warm voice.

To Wen Shengyi, people have simply misunderstood him.

At first, though, she doesn't realize that the feeling coming from an unfamiliar man is what people call "love."

She grew up surrounded by countless people who doted on and loved her. There was never a shortage of people around her, men or women, who did such things.

She had thought that once her revenge was complete, she would travel freely with her friends and sword, becoming a wandering doctor under an assumed name.

As for love, she didn't understand it and had no interest in it.

An accident in childhood set Pei Xueshi's life on a course toward an ending called "death." After years wandering the martial world, the carefree swordsman draws his sword only to give his former self some closure.

He thought that one day, after taking his revenge, he would leave the mortal world behind and quietly wait to die somewhere peaceful and deserted.

Then he met Wen Shengyi.

At their first meeting, she took the sword that meant everything to him as a swordsman.

He began to care about her, until he could no longer resist falling for her.

Her exterior is fragile, but within, she is unbreakably strong.

An undying flame burns in her eyes, and she is utterly captivating.

In all his life, Pei Xueshi has never met anyone like her, and he never will again.

He loves her, but he doesn't dare tell her.

He is destined not to live long, and he shouldn't hold her back.

He knows Wen Shengyi is slow to catch on, but in his sea of suffering, he is also grateful that she is.

[Reading Guide / Content Warnings]

1. Tragic ending.

2. 1v1, both pure, with a small amount of secondary-couple content.

3. Fictional setting, with extensive invented details. The story is melodramatic, awkward, exaggerated, and illogical; everything serves the goal of making it fun to read, so don't overthink it.

4. The title was inspired by the line, "Snow and moonlight are perfectly matched; plum blossoms and snow are both pure and clear," from Zhang Xiaoxiang's poem "Snow and Moonlight Are Perfectly Matched."

The author's current serial is the modern campus romance Eat the Green Grape. The entire story is already written. If you're interested, visit the author's profile to bookmark and read it!

Blurb:

Tao Tao Jiao first saw Lan Jiangning at a club event.

He wore a simple white T-shirt, with a kitten curled up by his feet, and stood lost in thought beneath the shade of a tree.

But her classmates crowded noisily around her, so she couldn't see him clearly.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught only a blurry but striking figure.

Soon, the event organizer called her away, and she didn't see him again before it ended.

Later, she happened to learn his name. She also learned that this handsome guy had set his "Add Me" options to QR code only and never added strangers.

She thought that distant glimpse would be their only connection, but that night she received a WeChat friend request:

"Hello, Tao. I'm Lan Jiangning from the Jiujiang campus."

*

Lan Jiangning took part in a volunteer event.

The September heat was so intense you could fry an egg on the ground. Not everyone had arrived yet, so he stood in the shade, drowsily lost in thought.

Then, for a moment, he caught the scent of summer green grapes: refreshing, with a sweetness brought out by the heat.

Wrapped in that scent, he lifted his head.

There were so many people, but for some reason, he knew that the owner of the scent was the girl in the distance holding a pink-and-green parasol.

She seemed popular, with people packed around her.

Someone said something, and she smiled, her eyes curving into crescents.

The second before their eyes met, he inexplicably turned away in a fluster.

But the corner of his eye was filled with green.

Amid the noisy crowd, he heard someone call her name: Tao Tao Jiao.

[Reading Guide]

1. [Lively, spirited, flirtatious heroine x Overthinking, hypocritical, lovesick hero]

2. 1v1, both pure, no secondary couples. All place, school, and shop names are fictional.

Theme: Be brave enough to love, and cherish the people before you.