Bitter Lemon Soda

[Multiple Personalities × Recognizing People by Scent]

[Gentle, Sweet, and Oblivious Girl × Brooding, Sensitive, Cool Guy]

[Secret Crush / Bittersweet Slow Burn / Healing / From School to the City]

After her younger brother died and her mother disappeared, Jiang Qingyue signed a severance agreement with her family and came alone to a small town in Jiangcheng. On Wutong Street, she met Lu Jiashu and became both his tenant and his neighbor.

On her first day at her new school, Jiang Qingyue was assigned to sit beside Lu Jiashu. She was beautiful and lively, bright as the sun.

Lu Jiashu, meanwhile, was the illegitimate son of a wealthy family whom everyone at school, and indeed throughout the whole town, avoided. Mired in misery, misanthropic and withdrawn, he frightened everyone. Everyone except Jiang Qingyue, whom no amount of snarling could drive away.

Other people were afraid of getting involved with him. She was afraid of having nothing to do with him.

But this passionate, stubborn girl was the one who voluntarily changed seats after the midterm exams, drawing a final line between herself and Lu Jiashu.

Jiang Qingyue wouldn't go anywhere Lu Jiashu was. If he planned to enter a competition, she would drop out.

On a snowy night, Jiang Qingyue stopped Lu Jiashu and asked, “Do you want to go to Jing University?”

Lu Jiashu looked at her, his eyes cold and indifferent.

“No.”

Later, Jiang Qingyue left West Alley. No one knew where she had gone.

Many years later, Lu Jiashu posted a photo of himself and Jiang Qingyue on his social media feed.

The caption read: “The bright moon in the sky, the one in my heart, shines on the spring here forever.”