Waiting for That Touch of White

They say a good horse never eats the grass it has already passed, and Zheng Ming'en is determined to be that good horse. In front of everyone, she lays down the rules. First: Never take the initiative to provoke Xu Shizhen. Second: If Xu Shizhen says east, she will never go west. Third: She will have nothing to do with anything related to Xu Shizhen. Yet the very next day, Zheng Ming'en is face-slapped by her own actions. When someone disparages Xu Shizhen, she’s the first to stand up for him. When Xu Shizhen says one thing to her, she fires back with a hundred. And she’s gotten involved in everything related to Xu Shizhen… Later, Xu Shizhen, who has always prided himself on being aloof, casually tells her, “It’s fine. Rules are made to be broken, aren’t they?” Zheng Ming'en: “…” [Literary version] Is there someone in your life like this? You care about them, but on the surface you act as if you’re at odds, instinctively taking their side. When you learn about the unhappy parts of their past, your heart aches for them. When you learn they’re leaving, you let them go with a smile. After they leave, the sunlight no longer pierces the clouds to shine on you, and you lose your reason to open your umbrella again. The busyness of life sweeps you up, and you think of them less than a third as often as you stretch each day. But whenever you stumble across some little reminder of them, the memories you can’t control belong to them alone. One-on-one romance / Reunited after years apart / The sweetest, most bittersweet mutual crush / Healing each other