Sheng Sheng, For You, Ning [Period School Life]

Their first meeting didn’t go according to plan.

The first time they met, the sky was clear.

Wen Sheng had just finished her high school entrance exams. She secretly climbed over the wall into the school of her dreams and stood in front of the noticeboard displaying the results. Facing the name at the top of the list, she pressed her hands together and made a wish for every subject. Suddenly, a voice behind her said,

“You still have a few subjects left. Why are you leaving already?”

Only later did she learn that the person who had been behind her the whole time was named Xu Jianing.

The second time they met, the sky was clear again.

On the day new students registered at Cangzhong, Xu Jianing spotted the person he wanted to see at a glance amid the crowd.

They’d only met once, but it felt as if he had rehearsed this reunion in his heart countless times.

The third time they met, it was raining.

Xu Jianing had only come to return an umbrella, but insisted on pretending they’d run into each other by chance.

He said, “I was headed this way anyway,” but held the umbrella tilted toward Wen Sheng.

The fourth time they met, it was snowing.

The boy bent over and shaped three layers of snow into a cake, then carefully held it out to Wen Sheng.

There were no candles, and it wasn’t anyone’s birthday. He just wanted to celebrate the snow falling until their hair turned white together.

After that, they met many more times.

From sunny days to snowy ones, from their first meeting to the moment they chose each other, the boy she liked was always there.

None of those “chance” meetings were really chance.

They had simply been secretly in love with each other all along.

Beneath the old locust tree at Cangzhong lay a kind of waiting and drawing closer, written and rewritten over and over.

Reader’s Guide:

1. A sweet story about everyday campus life.

2. Not a traditional period novel. The historical setting only appears from time to time.

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Check out my upcoming novel, Senior Brother, I Really Want a Two-Day Weekend.

Cen Miao dies from working herself to death. When she opens her eyes, she’s become an ordinary mortal in a cultivation world, spending every day lying flat and enjoying her second life. Then one day, an accidental formation explosion teleports her far from home. When she returns, her mother has disappeared, and a mysterious pattern has appeared on her body.

To uncover the truth, she accepts a deal from True Lord Qingheng, the sect master of Tianheng Sect: make his disciple, Shen Wuyu, fall in love and give up the path of heartlessness, and he’ll help her investigate the pattern.

For ten years, she tries every trick to make him fall for her, but Shen Wuyu remains expressionless. Every day, he fills her schedule with cultivation lessons: alchemy, talisman drawing, formation studies, sword practice, and sect competitions... Good grief, it’s like being back in senior year of high school.

Cen Miao is exhausted and cries out every day, “Senior Brother, I want a two-day weekend!”

Shen Wuyu only replies, “No.”

One night, Cen Miao sees the schedule he’s made for her Golden Core stage. It’s nothing but classes, with not a single day off. She finally snaps, grabs him by the collar, and demands, “Senior Brother, I just want a two-day weekend. Is that so hard?”

Shen Wuyu lowers his gaze to the collar of her robe, which has fallen slightly open from her grip. His long fingers cover her hand, and in a low voice he says, “Let go.”

Cen Miao refuses, so Shen Wuyu takes hold of her wrist and guides her hand down to the deeper red mark at his collar. He looks at her with a dark gaze. “Next month, we’ll marry and cultivate together.”

Cen Miao: ???

She’s been asking for a “two-day weekend” for ten years, and he’s been hearing “dual cultivation” for ten years?!

Wait, why does she have several red marks on her neck, too?

Moral: Education changes your destiny.