* Clear-headed, strong-willed, cool girl x devoted young master
* [Childhood sweethearts / Reunited after years apart / Accidental cohabitation]
1.
After her boss stabbed her in the back, Ning Qichun, who had been making her way in Shanghai with bold determination, resolutely returned to her hometown of Xiamen, only for her angry mother to shut the door in her face.
Her father secretly slipped her a key. "Your mom's still furious. Go stay somewhere else for a while."
Ning Qichun had no choice but to give in and use the key to look for a place to stay. But after checking everywhere, she discovered it could only open the door to the home of her childhood nemesis, Chen Qizhou.
Ning Qichun: I hope the place is empty.
Clinging to that hope, she put the key in the lock, but the door opened from the inside.
Chen Qizhou, who was supposed to be abroad, appeared behind it with a cold expression.
He was just as lazy and arrogant as ever.
Ning Qichun protested to her father. "You know we can't stand each other, and you still expect me to live with him?"
Her father said, "Qizhou's a great guy. You two should get along."
What was so great about him? He was just an arrogant pretty boy who threw his good looks around.
Every Lunar New Year's Eve, Chen Qizhou would stand outside her building, setting off fireworks and calling her name.
It was practically an outright provocation.
2.
Later, Ning Qichun was dragged into a game of Truth or Dare, and somehow ended up paired with Chen Qizhou.
The card they drew said: Name three things you've done for the other person that they don't know about.
Ning Qichun thought, This can't be good.
But Chen Qizhou lowered his eyes and said calmly:
"Those dozen or so letters asking to make up that I slipped under your door when we were kids? I wrote them."
"I deliberately made sure to pass by your school every day after class."
"That unfamiliar number that sent you 'Happy New Year' every year was mine, too."
Ning Qichun pretended not to hear him, thinking he was making things up to tease her again.
But then Chen Qizhou's languid yet serious voice reached her once more.
"And when I called your name outside your building every New Year, I wasn't trying to provoke you."
Ning Qichun: Making things up again?
Until one day, she accidentally found a thick stack of plane tickets in Chen Qizhou's closet.
They were from Birmingham to Beijing, and from Birmingham to Shanghai.
Ning Qichun's heart trembled.
Fish migration
So Chen Qizhou was the little fish who had been swimming back home all along.
A few things to know before reading:
1. They are each other's first love. The male lead has been secretly in love with her for a long time, and his plans finally pay off.
2. The male and female leads are sworn enemies because of a misunderstanding.
3. The story will later touch on the grudge between the female lead and the second female lead, but they will eventually make peace.
4. There are no villainous female characters who exist just to move the plot along.
Theme: Life will never lead you into a dead end
