You May Only Kiss Me

[Ongoing: "After I Turned into My Deskmate's Cat," please add it to your collection~]

[Extra chapters and bonus extras will drop from time to time (.˙▽˙.)]

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[You can jump straight to Chapter 13 to start with the school-life chapters.]

One day after they were married, Lin Qingxu was looking through the anniversary album she shared with Kan Zhao when she suddenly remembered what their class monitor had told her at a recent high school reunion.

She asked the person beside her, "Kan Zhao, did you secretly throw away my love letters in high school?"

No wonder she hadn't received a single one, from beginning to end.

Kan Zhao raised an eyebrow, neither confirming nor denying it.

"Why would you do that?"

Kan Zhao didn't seem ashamed at all. In fact, he looked rather pleased with himself as he asked her, "What do you think?"

Lin Qingxu drew out a long "Oh," understanding at last.

She blinked and asked, "When did you fall for me?"

Kan Zhao chuckled softly, lowering his head as he played with her fingers. "Who knows?"

Lin Qingxu and Kan Zhao's lives had been intertwined from the very beginning.

At three, she toddled after him and called in her babyish voice, "Brother Kan Zhao, wait for me."

At ten, during a stormy night, he covered her ears and gave her a piece of candy. "You scaredy-cat, why are you crying? This is nothing to be afraid of."

At eighteen, they sat side by side by the window. The plane trees rustled outside, and amid the cicadas' cries lay his most heart-pounding secret of youth.

On a morning when they were twenty-six, he turned around in the kitchen and saw her standing in the bedroom doorway, rubbing her sleepy eyes. Sunlight kissed her tousled hair, and an egg sizzled in the pan. Everything felt so peaceful and serene.

Who knew when it happened? Love had long since taken root in the years they spent together, day after day, quietly and without a sound.

In the long river of time, every little thing about you has long since joined together to form the warmest current in my life.

Reader's guide

1. [The first 10 chapters take place after marriage. The story then shifts to school life, high school and college, interspersed with childhood memories.]

2. [Both leads have only ever loved each other, and neither has been with anyone else / The male lead has a secret crush on the female lead / The female lead is adored by everyone.]

***A quick recommendation for the ongoing novel "After I Turned into My Deskmate's Cat"

Bright, sunny ray of sunshine vs. brilliant, aloof beauty on a high pedestal

Atheism? Materialism? Shen Chuning wakes up completely dumbfounded. Everything she once believed in has just been overturned right before her eyes.

Because she has actually turned into a cat!

A Chinese domestic shorthair curled up on someone else's abs, paws tucked in.

And what's even more outrageous is that the man before her, scratching her chin with a gaze so tender it could drown someone, keeps calling her "Mimi"...

Isn't that the top student who usually wears a cold expression and barely gives her the time of day, her deskmate?!

Shen Chuning has a flawless guide to winning people over. It's worked everywhere, from childhood to the present. The only person missing from it is Xu Yu, her SSR card.

As the famously untouchable beauty of Nanhua High School, Xu Yu is aloof and distant, always first in his grade, and unmoved by everyone's attempts to get close to him. In her seventeen years, Shen Chuning has never tasted defeat before.

And her reason for trying to win him over is refreshingly simple:

Xu Yu's homework is the most accurate, his handwriting is the neatest, and his work is the best to copy.

Naturally, the most basic factor is that they're deskmates, making it convenient for Shen Chuning.

To keep "referencing" his homework long-term, Shen Chuning comes up with a detailed strategy.

She offers him snacks, and he turns her down.

She asks him a question, and he tells her, "Read page thirty-seven."

Well, he's completely impervious to temptation.

Until one day, Shen Chuning suddenly turns into a cat.

As far as Xu Yu is concerned:

People are always drawn to his polished exterior, then flee in a panic when they discover the rot within.

But Shen Chuning is different.

She's like the sun, overflowing with empathy and warmth that borders on stubbornness. Rather than trying to save someone, her drawing close to others is simply the inevitable expression of the warmth at her core.

Theme: Study hard and become a better version of yourself