Touching the Moon

A chubby little bird who tilts her head and zones out x a goofy puppy who wags his tail and grins

At the high school freshman year sports meet,

fourteen-year-old Qiao Luo and sixteen-year-old Ding Sixian each had their own worries.

Qiao Luo: A handsome guy has latched onto me, and he doesn't seem too bright. What do I do?

Ding Sixian: I've fallen for the top student at school, but she hasn't figured it out. What do I do?

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#YouAreMyOneAndOnlyChoice#

#AChaoticEverydayLifeWithAWeirdWayOfThinking#

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Literary synopsis:

On that snowy night,

she said she wanted to light up the darkness.

So he decided

to go with her and touch the moon in this world.

The title of this book comes from a lyric:

I hear someone defies the night, insisting on lighting up the moon in this world.

Yin Lin, "Pearl"

Random excerpt from Yun Anluo's graduate thesis acknowledgments:

[And, thank you to that ray of moonlight, who went to great lengths to shine on me and accompanied me through the dark night. I hope we can see the dawn together, too.]

Reader's Guide:

1. They're both science students. The heroine gets better grades than the hero.

2. Told mainly from the heroine's third-person perspective, with a little from the hero's. Romance and plot are roughly evenly split. Both leads are each other's first and only, and it's absolutely pure.

3. Potential caveats: Personal preferences. The heroine is a total tomboy and highly capable. The hero is a little sickly, and he can act cute and cry. I like a soft, pampered husband.

The hero's name comes from the line "The moon shines on the flower grove, and all looks like sleet." Sixian is pronounced like "sleet."

I can't think of anything else that might bother readers for now. If anyone points something out, I'll add it. Thank you, thank you!

I tried using Luoluo and Xiaoguang's behavior to work out their Jungian personality types. Luoluo is ISTP/INTP, while Xiaoguang is ENFP/ENFJ.

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