Secretly Loving You Is a Secret I Can't Keep

After Li Shuhe's family moved back in next door to Zhong Yihe's, Li Shuhe started sticking to him every day again, just like when they were children. She also dropped plenty of hints that she liked him.

Zhong Yihe told everyone he met that he had no feelings for Li Shuhe, the girl next door.

Yet every day, he carried in his pocket the "love-knot" she'd given him.

The two had been childhood friends who grew up together. When she was little, she clung to him every day, calling him "Big Brother Yihe" and insisting she would marry him. In high school, she moved back in next door. Not only were they in the same class, they became deskmates, too.

At a dinner with both families, the elders teased, "You should marry Shuhe after graduation." She looked at him expectantly, but he just laughed it off.

His best buddy asked if he liked Shuhe. The stubborn fool replied, "I guess I don't like her that much."

Later, she dragged her friends into devising one plan after another, dropping hints both obvious and subtle, but that blockhead didn't react at all.

It wasn't until they went to the park one weekend that she bought two love-knots from a fortune-telling stall and shoved one into his hands.

He thought it was just an ordinary little gift and casually accepted it with an "Oh."

But he carried it with him every day.

Everyone could see what was going on. Everyone but him.

Zhong Yihe: "I really don't like her."

Li Shuhe: "Then how long are you planning to keep that knot in your pocket?"

Zhong Yihe: "Huh?"