Jiang Zhou x Shen Zhiyun [He has a secret crush on her]
1
Shen Zhiyun and Jiang Zhou have known each other for twenty years.
Everyone sees them as the perfect childhood-friend duo. They've been close confidants for almost twenty years, sharing everything.
But lately, for some reason, things between them have become awkward.
They deliberately look away when they pass each other. At gatherings, they each show up for only half the event, as if taking turns. They don't even stand together in group photos anymore.
Amid everyone's speculation, Shen Zhiyun's thoughts are still stuck on that ambiguous, restless night.
Her fingertips playfully brush the long, pale knuckles of Jiang Zhou's hand. When she tries to pull away, he catches her with a firm grip. The next second, his hold suddenly loosens, and the emotions roiling in his eyes turn dark and unreadable.
Shen Zhiyun can't help taking a sip of the drink in her hand, trying not to picture what happened next
Her thought that it was "just a joke" ends with the soft laugh she hears by her ear.
Jiang Zhou kissed her.
2
In their senior year of high school, Shen Zhiyun broke up with her first boyfriend and crouched alone by the school lake, crying.
After she went missing, every teacher in the school stopped class and went looking for her. Shen Zhiyun was curled up in the bushes, tears pattering down her face.
The leaves beside her rustled as someone walked over. Jiang Zhou draped his school uniform jacket over her head, crouched beside her, and drawled, "Give me a kiss, and I'll find someone to beat him up for you."
Shen Zhiyun told him he was crazy.
The next day, her first boyfriend was beaten to a pulp, and Jiang Zhou was suspended for a week.
3
When Shen Zhiyun was three, she let go of her beloved balloon on her first day of kindergarten.
She cried and made a scene at the classroom door. The teachers couldn't do anything to calm her down, and an older school administrator made it worse by trying to scare her with an unpleasant remark. "If a little girl cries this loudly, no one will want to marry her when she grows up."
Suddenly, a little boy appeared from nowhere and stood in front of her. Like a hero standing up for the wronged, he shouted at the administrator, "I'll marry her!"
Shen Zhiyun immediately stopped crying, then kicked the boy hard in the butt. After knocking him down, she wailed even louder. "I never said I'd marry you!"
When her parents came to take her home, the boy limped after her and called out. He handed her a colorful balloon and asked, "Hi. Can we be friends?"
He said, "My name is Jiang Zhou."
P.S.
1. The male lead is loyal in body and heart, and utterly pure. As always, don't pry into the little girl's private life~
2. A quietly protective, restrained, cool guy with puppy-like devotion x a lively, adorable, mischievous sweet girl
3. Very sweet, lighthearted, cozy romance
4. The male lead has liked the female lead since long ago
5. The full novel is already written. Updates will probably start in early December~
Theme: Keep striving every day, and never give up
